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Biden officials divided on message over N95 masks for all


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The CDC told vaccinated Americans in the spring they were free to go maskless before reversing the recommendation in July, telling even the vaccinated to wear masks in areas where the virus was widely circulating.Since the arrival of the omicron variant, Biden has increased his calls for people to wear masks indoors, but has stopped short of advising them to wear N95 masks, something that he, the vice president and top administration officials have been wearing publicly and around the halls of the White House for weeks.”I know we all wish that we could finally be done with wearing masks, I get it," Biden said Thursday. A group of medical experts who advised Biden during the transition encouraged the White House publicly last week to give Americans a voucher to buy masks on their own from a retailer.There has also been division outside the White House over how the benefit of N95 masks should be communicated and how far the administration should go to urge people to wear them, with some public health experts advocating for the masks to be shipped to every person in the country and others warning it would be a waste of resources.“There is no question that high-quality masks can make a difference, they have protected myself and many other health care workers from significant exposures in hospitals and clinics,” said Dr. Kavita Patel, a former Obama administration adviser.

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