SAN FRANCISCO (KGO)– California is deep into a Summertime surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. What would it require to flatten the curve again?
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Wearing masks is the apparent answer to Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of UCSF’S Department of Medicine.
” We sort of screwed things up on masks in our early messaging that they weren’t all that essential, and of course the messaging out of the federal government that’s been both irregular and incorrect,” he informed ABC7 News’ Kristen Sze Wednesday’s 3 p.m. special protection of Bay Location events.
” If everybody wore a mask the rate of brand-new cases would go down enormously,” Wachter continued. “It would not go down to zero. The masks aren’t 100%perfect, however they’re quite darn great.”
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Scientific research studies show prevalent mask wearing result in less cases, fewer hospitalizations and less ICU hospitalizations related to COVID-19
Gov. Gavin Newsom just recently purchased Californians to wear masks in all high-risk environments. Many counties currently have more stringent mask requirements in location.
As for a federal mandate on mask wearing, Wachter said, “We need to have had that a month earlier or perhaps more.”
However it’s not almost laws, he stated. It has to do with enforcement and altering norms.
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” Consider 50 years ago when it was typical to go in a space and see everybody smoking cigarettes. It would now be exceptionally weird to see that. And it’s not just because there are rules and laws versus it, but it’s due to the fact that if you did it, somebody in the space would state, ‘Do not do that.’ And we have to get to a location where people are comfy saying to each other, ‘You have to wear a mask.'”
View the full interview with Dr. Wachter in the video player above.
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