Anthony Fauci saying it makes “common sense” to wear two masks instead of one.
A Breitbart article explains that Anthony Fauci is endorsing the idea of wearing two masks for additional protection from COVID-19, and he is even saying that people should continue to wear masks even after being vaccinated against the disease.
Fauci made the statements during an appearance on America’s Newsroom, where he said experts do not yet know whether the vaccine “protects against infections so that people who can be vaccinated and feel very well and have no clinically apparent disease could still have virus in their nasal fairings because they got infected but they did not get any symptoms.”
Fauci listed a “couple” of reasons why he thinks people should continue to wear masks after receiving a vaccination: “And just to be doubly sure, there are a couple of reasons to wear masks even after vaccination. One, you want to protect other people in case you have virus in your nasal fairings, and if you look in the community, there’s enough virus out there that before we start pulling back on things like public health measures, you want the overwhelming population vaccinated. And as I’ve said, the calculation — even though it’s still an estimate — would be somewhere between 70 and 85 percent of the population.”
Contrary to his current statements, Anthony Fauci said in March on “60 Minutes” that face masks are only useful when symptomatic people wear them.