{"id":891,"date":"2020-11-12T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=891"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:11:03","slug":"cdc-updates-face-mask-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/11\/12\/cdc-updates-face-mask-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Updates Face Mask Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 10, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its\u00a0<a title=\"Scientific Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/more\/masking-science-sars-cov2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mask guidance<\/a>\u00a0and asserted that wearing face masks not only protects the public\u00a0<i>but also protects the mask wearer<\/i>. Health experts have emphasized the benefits of mask-wearing to prevent infection and spread of the COVID-19 virus for months. But, until recently, the CDC has largely encouraged the public to wear face masks in order to protect\u00a0<i>other<\/i>\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/cdc_updates_face_mask_recommendations_1120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 10, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its\u00a0mask guidance\u00a0and asserted that wearing face masks not only protects the public\u00a0but also protects the mask wearer. Health experts have emphasized the benefits of mask-wearing to prevent infection and spread of the COVID-19 virus for months. But, until recently, the CDC has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/11\/12\/cdc-updates-face-mask-recommendations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CDC Updates Face Mask Recommendations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[646,1018,560,647],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cdc","tag-mask-guidance","tag-masks","tag-u-s-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}