Dr. Anthony Fauci has been reluctant to support a federal mask mandate.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been urging Americans to use masks for months. “I have trust in the American people that if we put a strong emphasis on the importance of wearing masks, that we will come around and do that and get that percentage up above the relatively low percentage of people that are using masks,” Fauci said on July 21 on NPR’s Morning Edition. Continue reading “Fauci says it might be time to mandate masks as Covid-19 surges across US”