David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, advises people who protest to consider distance and wear masks, in a WRAL news story.
“I think what we need is multiple layers of protection…so keeping distance from each other especially when we’re shouting or singing.” Wohl said. “I think that makes a lot of sense. Also, the masks help keep the germs to you and not to somebody else. And good hand hygiene. I think there’s a way to do this, and I think the organizers of these demonstrations have an obligation and a role to help us do that…and I think they have. There was an NAACP event over the weekend, here in Chapel Hill where they did a fantastic job of getting people to be safe.”
Wohl also recognized the lag time with people being exposed and the symptoms showing up. “If there’s going to be transmission related to some of the events, we’re going to see it in about two to three weeks.”
Watch the story here.