Recommendation regarding the use of cloth face coverings, especially in areas of significant community-based transmission
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Recommendation regarding the use of cloth face coverings, especially in areas of significant community-based transmission



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  • Alternative Title:
    How to make your own face covering
  • Personal Author:
    Adams, Jerome
  • Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
  • Description:
    CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States. We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms (“asymptomatic”) and that even those who eventually develop symptoms (“pre-symptomatic”) can transmit the virus to others before showing symptoms. This means that the virus can spread between people interacting in close proximity—for example, speaking, coughing, or sneezing—even if those people are not exhibiting symptoms. In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.

    It is critical to emphasize that maintaining 6-feet social distancing remains important to slowing the spread of the virus. CDC is additionally advising the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others. Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an additional, voluntary public health measure.

    The cloth face coverings recommended are not surgical masks or N-95 respirators. Those are critical supplies that must continue to be reserved for healthcare workers and other medical first responders, as recommended by current CDC guidance.

  • Content Notes:
    Includes link to 45 second video "How to Make Your own Face Covering" featuring a demonstration by U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
  • Subjects:
  • Series:
    Coronavirus Disease 2019 (CoVID-19)
  • Document Type:
    Webpage
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