Facemasks May Be More Important Than Vaccine

CDC Director Robert Redfield testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee:

“These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have… I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.”

Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports top U.S. health officials are offering conflicting estimates of when Americans should expect coronavirus vaccines to be widely available, with Redfield predicting a vaccine being “generally available to the American public” in the “late second quarter, third quarter 2021.”