On January 28, during a conversation with the nation’s second-largest teacher’s union, Dr. Anthony Fauci derided the recent fashion trend of wearing two face masks at once to protect against the Chinese coronavirus. “There are many people who feel, you know, if you really want to have an extra bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on,” Fauci observed with characteristic diplomacy. “There’s nothing wrong with that,” he assured the neurotics, “but there’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.”
The data must have changed considerably in the three days after Fauci spoke with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on January 25. During that interview, Fauci spoke favorably of double-masking, opining, “If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.”
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