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Buckeye_Democrat

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1. They were clearly also worried about healthcare workers...

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2020, 02:26 PM

May 2020

... not having masks, due to "panic shopping".

March 2nd article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/02/n95-face-mask-coronavirus/

Edit: And they surely knew about asymptomatic spreaders back then, since I knew about it before it even reached the USA after reading about it in other countries.

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Mayo Clinic on Face Masks [View all] Quixote1818 May 2020 OP

They were clearly also worried about healthcare workers... Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #1

Right. From what I remember it was the desperate need for masks to go to medical and they LizBeth May 2020 #2

Yeah, that would've been better. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #3

Yes - and that lie (however well-intended) is feeding the current bad practices. Ms. Toad May 2020 #5

I was there 8 hours on the 19th. ProudMNDemocrat May 2020 #4

It's not that hard to find KN95 masks RAB910 May 2020 #6