Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb: ‘A Cloth Mask May Be 10 to 30% Protective’

By Melanie Arter | October 26, 2020 | 10:04am EDT

 

 

 

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease walks out of an underground crossing at Tverskaya metro station in central Moscow on October 26, 2020. (Photo by YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recommends that people who vote in person should have a high-quality mask, but he said Sunday that cloth masks only provide 10 to 30 percent protection from the coronavirus.

“Remember, the masks serve two purposes. One is to protect other people from you. So if you're asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic, if you have a mask on, you're less likely to expel respiratory droplets that can infect other people. The other purpose is to provide you some measure of protection if, in fact, you're around people who are infected. So if you want a mask to afford you some protection from other people, quality matters,” he said.

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