How America screwed up its messaging on masks.
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The message from public health experts is clear: wearing a mask can help stop the spread of coronavirus. But that message hasn’t completely gotten through: Many Americans still simply don’t believe it. It’s a major failure of communication, one that has almost certainly cost lives.
But the US government actually had a plan to prevent almost this exact situation from happening: A written set of rules to communicating in a public health crisis, including how to make sure that public health information doesn’t get mixed up with politics. But then, when the biggest health crisis in a century arrived, they ignored it completely.
Read the CERC for yourself:
https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp
And read the full story of how masks became a political issue in the US:
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/21/21331310/mask-masks-trump-covid19-rule-georgia-alabama
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Original Author: Produced by Vox and published on 22/08/2020 Source