Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Friday that the U.S. may want to mandate face coverings amid the latest surge of coronavirus cases.
In a CNN interview on Friday, Fauci was asked if he thought Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s plan to fight for mandates on mask-wearing across the country would be helpful.
Fauci told CNN’s Erin Burnett that it would be a “great idea” to have everybody wearing masks uniformly. He also responded to criticism that mandates on masks would be difficult to enforce.
“If everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate and everybody pulls together, and says ‘we’re gonna mandate it, but let’s just do it,’ I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly,” Fauci said.
Fauci further said that one of the arguments he hears against masks mandates is that enforcing it would create more of an issue.
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