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CDC director: COVID-19 could be controlled in 1-2 months if people wear masks.
KSTP.com ^ | July 15, 2020 | ABC NEWS

Posted on 07/16/2020 8:02:07 AM PDT by L.A.Justice

Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes "the most powerful weapon we have" against the novel coronavirus is wearing face coverings, washing hands and "being smart about social distancing."

"If we all rigorously did this, we could really bring this outbreak back to where it needs to be," Redfield told the Journal of the American Medical Association via video on Tuesday.

Coronavirus cases are surging across the U.S., from California to Texas to Florida. More than 3.4 million people in the country have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and over 136,00 people have died.

To Redfield, a major key to controlling the pandemic is wearing masks.

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KEYWORDS: cdc; coronavirus; fraud; mask; masks
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To: pepsionice
"If this mask ‘wonder-drug’ were true, then the whole thing would have disappeared in Germany back in late June in Germany...because of massive mask requirements."

I got curious about how Germany performed since you brought up the comparison and I haven't looked at them before. Here's the comparison of daily COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people:

Source: https://covid19.healthdata.org/germany

Note that the "observed" figures only run through July 7th, so the data is a little over a week old.

41 posted on 07/16/2020 8:23:26 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: LouAvul

“Is a mask going to be a permanent accessory?”

Yes - at the very least, as an off & on thing. At least until there is a vaccine.


42 posted on 07/16/2020 8:24:28 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: L.A.Justice

I think we tried this, and it didn;t work.


43 posted on 07/16/2020 8:25:30 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: unixfox

the claim is bs


44 posted on 07/16/2020 8:25:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Germany may have taken the Obama H1N1 approach and just stopped testing.

Trump was wise to start talking about that.


45 posted on 07/16/2020 8:26:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: LouieFisk

There wont be a vaccine before everybody that was going to get it gets it anyways.


46 posted on 07/16/2020 8:26:48 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: gogeo

“I would say the only realistic say to bring this under control is here immunity.“

And you would be correct. Although all these measures states have put in place only help prevent herd immunity.

Immunity is the only way to defeat a virus. How do you want to get there? Fast or slow? Synthetic or natural?

What also should be noted is synthetic for a coronavirus may not be possible. None have worked before, most fail not in the creation of antibodies but at the critical time when the innoculated encounter the wild virus. Unfortunately no one wants to hear that part.


47 posted on 07/16/2020 8:27:24 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: L.A.Justice

hey Dr. CDC, what is plan B?

release SARS_CoV-22?

or perhaps your supersecret MERS_CoV-23?

how much stock do “people” in your Agency
have in VACCINE companies?

where were you when the CEOs of the HCQ making company
were slaughtered??


48 posted on 07/16/2020 8:27:54 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: L.A.Justice

I would like to know what the status is on any type of therapeutic treatment, it seems that the powers that be have no interest in any of the potentially beneficial procedures that are going on out there.


49 posted on 07/16/2020 8:30:57 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: L.A.Justice

This woulD require masks to be worn PERMANENTLY.


50 posted on 07/16/2020 8:31:07 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: L.A.Justice

Or it may have been be under control 4 weeks ago and masks don’t matter at this point.


51 posted on 07/16/2020 8:31:48 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("The natives are growing restless")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

COVID-19 would be a minor problem if it was not politicized by the anti-American parties of this country.


52 posted on 07/16/2020 8:32:04 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: L.A.Justice

I’m glad this idiot “believes” that masks work

No can we get to the real science that show they don’t??

Yup. Didn’t think so


53 posted on 07/16/2020 8:33:24 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: JayAr36

You are correct. If idiot governors had managed their nursing homes properly we might be looking at numbers akin to the flu.


54 posted on 07/16/2020 8:33:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: L.A.Justice

‘wearing face coverings, washing hands and “being smart about social distancing.”

if we were being smart about social distancing, and actually practicing it, would that not make face coverings redundant...? I’ll gladly social distance, but then don’t force me to cover my face and nose...


55 posted on 07/16/2020 8:33:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Nifster

https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/07/second-wave-not-even-close/

This article is medicine in a sick time. It’s actual science.


56 posted on 07/16/2020 8:34:09 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: unixfox

Is this the same CDC that said we should not wear face masks?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30


57 posted on 07/16/2020 8:34:39 AM PDT by SouthParkRepublican
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To: L.A.Justice

“Control” is a weasel word.

Does it mean “wiped out”? No, that’s not possible.

It’s a vague undefined term that allows them to keep continually moving the goalposts.

I put this on Pence. The task force should be defining clear goals and timelines.


58 posted on 07/16/2020 8:35:03 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It doesn't look like they actually stopped testing, but they haven't ramped up testing the way we have. They hit about 70 tests per 100,000 people in late March and never really expanded much beyond that. We got a later start (thanks to contaminated CDC test kits), but we passed Germany's testing rate around April 20th and are now testing at something like 2-3x their rate:

Source is the same: https://covid19.healthdata.org/germany

59 posted on 07/16/2020 8:35:27 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: L.A.Justice
To Redfield, a major key to controlling the pandemic is wearing masks.

BS, that would men that some states residents are wearing masks properly and other are not, in order to see these state discrepancies.

60 posted on 07/16/2020 8:35:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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