White House: CDC double mask study not ‘official guidance’

Published February 10, 2021 6:12pm ET



The White House said a government report urging people to consider wearing two masks to protect themselves from COVID-19 and its contagious variants is not a policy recommendation.

“This was a study. … It doesn’t issue definitive guidance on one mask versus two,” press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday.

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