CDC Chief claims that there is a better solution for COVID-19, more effective than a vaccine. He said that face masks could prevent the virus more efficiently.
However, the article explained that if the theory is correct, population-wide masking using any face-covering could contribute to increasing the number of asymptomatic infected people.
The study's reasoning behind the idea is that people wearing face masks would only receive a smaller amount of viral particles than those without masks.
COVID-19 could be controlled just like cholera
Sarah Cobey, a computational biologist at the University of Chicago, said that the mechanical barriers could indeed be more effective than vaccines in preventing the virus transmission. She added that COVID-19 could also be controlled just like other enteric pathogens such as cholera, which was managed by improving plumbing rather than developing its vaccine.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
