To the Editor:
Thank you, Charles Howe, for your timely thoughts on wearing protective masks as a “Matter of Respect” (7/22). Respect for others would have gone to great lengths at reducing the 156,000 American COVID-19 deaths as of this writing. More respect for the expertise of the Coronavirus Task Force by one individual, from the start, would have made a significant positive difference. But this individual refused to respect the advice of the medical industry to wear a mask.
For several months Johns Hopkins University has highly recommended the wearing of masks in public as a deterrent to…
August 6, 2020
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