Listen: Should You Wear a Mask?
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Americans wear face coverings when venturing out in public. The new guidelines come a month after the surgeon general urged people to stop buying masks, tweeting that they are “NOT effective” in preventing the general public from contracting COVID-19. So, what exactly should people wear now and when should they wear them?
On this episode of the podcast Social Distance, James Hamblin answers Katherine Wells’s basic questions about the coronavirus. What is a virus? Why is this one so bad? And what should be done to avoid catching it?
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: What even is a virus?
It's just a strand of nucleic acids, DNA or RNA, wrapped in some little coating or shell or
