Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The complicated calculus of mask-wearing
CNN
It's not easy right now to know when to wear a mask, but there are objective ways to figure this out. To start, ask yourself, what is the likelihood that I'm going to breathe in someone else's air and that air could have enough virus to infect me?
In our new world, where there's now a highly effective way to prevent the spread of Covid-19 -- vaccines -- masks still remain a complicated issue, especially since US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed its guidance on face coverings for fully vaccinated people outdoors. Now, masks aren't only tied to politics, they're also causing plenty of confusion.The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter – a deeply unorthodox move that could potentially expose the identities of those officers to foreign government hackers.
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