In a WRAL interview, Melissa Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, commented on superspreader events and precautions that are needed after a recent White House ceremony was found to be linked to eight coronavirus cases.
“The mask is our best protection to both contain our own secretions, if we are the person who has the high viral load, and if we are coming into contact with other people who could be infectious. It serves a dual purpose in that way,” she said in the article.
Read the article at WRAL.com.