
The CDC updated its mask guidelines. What to know about 'the highest level of protection'
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Many public health experts are recommending people choose N95 face masks. But why should you choose them over cloth masks? Where can you get them? Can you re-wear them? Experts answer these questions and more.
The updated guidelines come after many public health experts have been recommending for months that people wear more effective masks -- particularly N95s -- and that the CDC change its guidelines on mask-wearing.
"Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron," CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, recently said on "CNN Newsroom."

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