Fires are being lit everywhere across Fordham Road as protesters are breaking into stores and leaving a path of destruction in their wake.
The Bronx has not seen anything like this nor the city since the 1977 Blackout.
Looting has gripped the city and not just The Bronx as reports are coming in from 34th Street and Times Square too.
While yes this is looting but the message ISN’T LOST. People are angry. Black and Brown folks are tired. They are tired of being killed.
Beginning tonight at 11PM until 5AM, Governor Cuomo said there will be a curfew implemented in New York City due to the past four days of protests demanding justice after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis which have turned violent in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
NYPD presence will also be doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 officers within the city to enforce the curfew.
Full press release from Governor Cuomo’s office below:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio today announced a citywide curfew in New York City will take effect beginning at 11 PM tonight and will be lifted at 5 AM tomorrow morning.
The Governor and the Mayor also announced that the New York City Police Department will double its police presence to help prevent violence and property damage. The additional officers will be deployed to areas where violence and property damage occurred during last night’s protests – specifically in lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.
The Governor and the Mayor also reminded New Yorkers participating in protests to take proper health precautions and wear face coverings while we continue to fight the COVID-19 virus.
“I stand behind the protestors and their message, but unfortunately there are people who are looking to distract and discredit this moment,” Governor Cuomo said. “The violence and the looting has been bad for the city, the state and this entire national movement, undermining and distracting from this righteous cause. While we encourage people to protest peacefully and make their voices heard, the safety of the general public is paramount and cannot be compromised. Tonight the Mayor and I are implementing a citywide curfew starting at 11 PM and doubling the NYPD presence across the city.”
“I support and protect peaceful protest in this city. The demonstrations we’ve seen have been generally peaceful. We can’t let violence undermine the message of this moment. It is too important and the message must be heard. Tonight, to protect against violence and property damage, the Governor and I have decided to implement a citywide curfew,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “The Police Commissioner and I have spoken at length about the incidents we’ve all seen in recent days where officers didn’t uphold the values of this city or the NYPD. We agree on the need for swift action. He will speak later today on how officers will be held accountable.”
Despite drops of COVID-19 cases across the city and state, there are ten lingering hotspots where positive cases of coronavirus remain high.
As a result, Governor Cuomo announced that the state will be adding additional 10 additional testing sites (one per zip code on the list below) because, “We need people to come out and get tested, find out who has the virus and who has the antibodies, who is possibly contagious.”
Six of the top ten zip codes with highest percentage of cases testing positive for COVID-19 are in The Bronx with three of them at the top of the list.
The 10457 zip code in The Bronx, which covers parts of Belmont, Mount Hope, and Crotona, has the highest rate of positive cases in New York City at 51% followed by 10460, which is adjacent and covers West Farms, Van Nest, and Crotona and has a 50% positive rate.
Third on the list is 10468 covering Kingsbridge Heights, and parts of Bedford Park and Fordham Manor and also with a 50% rate.
This is more than twice the citywide average of 19% and the fact that The Bronx has six of the ten hotspots in the city just shows how severely impacted our borough has been hit.
Back when the coronavirus pandemic began surfacing in The Bronx, I published an article indicating that we were poised to take a hard hit during this crisis. A few weeks later, our worst fears came true as our beloved borough became ground zero for COVID-19 in New York City not just in terms of infection rates but as well as mortality.
In terms of infection, many Bronx residents in these hard-hit areas live in overcrowded apartments where social distancing is impossible as multiple generations of families live under one roof. Add that you have many essential workers living in these households and you now also have one or two individuals who still must go to work thus potentially picking up the virus along the way.
And COVID-19’s high mortality rate in The Bronx can sadly be attributed due to the poor health outcomes of its residents as we are the unhealthiest county in New York State and one of the unhealthiest in the country.
In New York, we have the highest rates of asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some of the highest rates of obesity as well as compromised immune systems. Just one of these illnesses significantly increases risk of developing severe symptoms due to the coronavirus but even worse is if an individual suffers from two or more of these.
Sadly in The Bronx, many residents suffer from many of such comorbidities.
And it is no surprise that these hard-hit areas here in The Bronx and across the city are low-income communities of color further showing the great inequality that exists in what’s supposed to be America’s Melting pot.
Yesterday at 3PM, hundreds of protestors gathered at Roberto Clemente Plaza at The Hub as part of a Black Lives Matter rally and march demanding not only for justice for the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer but an end to all racial injustices against Black people in this country.
After listening to several organizers speak, the group began marching through the streets passing by Lincoln Hospital and continuing through Mott Haven.
Once they arrived at the 40th Precinct, NYPD officers quickly mobilized donning riot gear despite the crowd never not once displaying any threat to anyone.
The symbolism of their arrival at this particular precinct was not lost to many as the 40th was ground zero for the racist stop and frisk policies which disproportionately impacted men of color.
In 2014, the then 40th Precinct commanding officer Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormack was reassigned after having been recorded telling his officers to arrest “male blacks between 14 and 21”.
At the time, the precinct had the highest stop and frisk arrests in The Bronx and in the top 5 in New York City.
The officers continued to put on the gear (video below) even as the crowd pleaded with them asking why are they doing this and why do they feel the need to get out batons.
The demonstrators stood at the barricade at 139th and Alexander Avenue for at least 15 minutes before continuing to march through the neighborhood before peacefully ending at St Mary’s Park with everyone taking a moment to kneel.
Take a look at the pics below and video from the scene.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that New York City would begin Phase 1 reopening after almost 3 full months under lockdown of non-essential businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 crisis has impacted The Bronx more than any other borough with the highest rates of infection and mortality due to the virus and now also the borough with the highest unemployment rate in New York City at a staggering 16.5%.
Under Phase 1 reopening, Bronx businesses owners and employees can hopefully begin to get some relief as they open. The following is a list of businesses that will be allowed for reopening (Links to guidance on each industry at the end of this article):
If you are a business owner, you can visit the following website to view the summary guidelines for each industry, read and affirm the guidelines, and print a business safety plan template.
Note: If you are a business owner, you are required by New York State to affirm to the guidelines if your business is qualified to open under Phase 1.
Melrose—Employees of The Bronx Defenders, the public defense non-profit that provides legal services to low-income Bronxites, have overwhelmingly voted to unionize.
Citing that as the, “…office continues to grow in size and influence, the organization has failed to stay true to that mission,” and that, “power and prestige are prioritized over client-centered representation and the dignity of our staff,” that Bronx Defenders can only realize their mission of holistic defense if the organization centers its staff members, most of which are from and live in The Bronx.
After the vote, employees of the public defense non-profit are calling on management to not only recognize their union but to immediately begin bargaining.
While there are many who may not agree, this is an important step in protecting the workers of this organization.
The full text of the press release is below:
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** May 29, 2020
BxD Union Press Inquiries: bxdunion.press.inquiries@gmail.com Alexi Shalom, Organizer, UAW Local 2325: ashalom@alaa.org
The Bronx Defenders Workers Announce Campaign to Unionize
Bronx, New York – We, the employees of The Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit providing public defense to low- income Bronx residents, announced our intent to join the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 on Friday, May 29th. After an overwhelming majority of our office signed cards indicating support for unionization, we are calling for The Bronx Defenders management to recognize our union and begin bargaining immediately.
As defenders, we have witnessed relentless attacks on the people of The Bronx by the criminal, family, immigration, and housing legal systems. We have fought alongside Bronx families whose safety is jeopardized by policing, family separation, housing insecurity, unemployment, jail building, and other systemic injustices. On top of these forms of oppression, the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought devastation upon The Bronx community that will only be compounded without further intervention. To tackle these complex and entrenched injustices, The Bronx Defenders has transformed public defense with an innovative holistic defense approach that advocates for clients throughout their lives and across legal systems.
We joined The Bronx Defenders because of our commitment to holistic defense. However, as our office continues to grow in size and influence, the organization has failed to stay true to that mission. Too often, power and prestige are prioritized over client-centered representation and the dignity of our staff. As a public defense office that occupies land and absorbs resources in The Bronx, we recognize that our commitment to the people of The Bronx requires an internal redistribution of power. We believe that The Bronx Defenders’ promise of holistic defense can only be fulfilled by an organization that centers staff members who are longtime Bronx community members and those whose daily work engages most directly with the people of The Bronx.
In order to realize our vision of a better Bronx Defenders, we demand:
To these ends, we ask for immediate recognition so that we can avoid time-consuming legal battles and instead focus our energy on our fundamental purpose: fighting for the people of The Bronx.
This announcement carries special significance for The Bronx Defenders, whose founding in 1997 undermined bargaining efforts by the union we now seek to join. In the years since, we have recognized that our organization can only live up to its stated values when we stand in solidarity with our fellow defenders. We are proud to join them in the nation’s oldest public defenders’ union. We declare our union today with a vision for a better Bronx Defenders and an unflagging commitment to zealous advocacy that affirms the humanity and dignity of everyone who walks through our doors.
@bxdunion
With The Bronx already on edge as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City making it the hardest hit borough, there’s one more thing to worry about: Unemployment.
The unadjusted unemployment rate for April 2020 hit 16.5%—over 3 times what it was the same time last year when it was 5%.
In a borough that suffered the highest rates of positive cases for coronavirus in the city and highest mortality rate as well, this is something else that we have to deal with. Combined with the fact that The Bronx has the lowest median income in the city, the most residents facing eviction and families just one paycheck away from homelessness this is simply a disaster for our borough.
We need the city, state, and federal government to step up and protect our most vulnerable during this crisis.
Instead of building jails to replace Riker’s let’s utilize that money for our communities to ensure they have adequate housing and food. $8.7 billion to $11 billion that has been projected to cost to close down Riker’s and build new jails would go a long way on preventing yet another crisis for the city’s low income residents.
In fact, this is something that local elected officials have recently called for.
In a letter signed by 11 elected officials, they wrote to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson asking that they reconsider building the new jails in light of the crisis.
They write:
“The Bronx is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. No other part of the country has been hit as hard as our community has. It is time to put a halt to this project so that the financial resources that have been allocated to its completion can be put towards more important priorities right now – the health and education of our families and workers.
“I urge Mayor de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson to reconsider this project as it evaluates the budget in the coming weeks,” said Congressman Serrano.
“In this time of great crisis where we have taken an economic hit, especially here in The Bronx, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that we allocate our funding where it can help,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
“We need to invest in people, not projects like this, so that we can help close the gap on the social and economic disparities that exacerbated the death toll of Coronavirus victims in our borough,” added Diaz Jr.
While I may not always agree with all of our elected officials, this is a no-brainer.
Mayor de Blasio has two options: Do the right thing and redirect the funds for the new jails towards economic stability for vulnerable communities like in The Bronx, or forever go down as a failure of a mayor who only widened the gap between the tale of two cities.
Tucked away on Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, New York City’s REAL Little Italy, is Madonia Bakery.
This Bronx Italian institution has been baking bread for over a century, including their signature olive bread using the same recipe and techniques as when they started back in 1918 when Mario Madonia arrived from Sicily.
One of their most famous breads is none other than the olive loaf which people line up for especially during the holidays. You’d understand why people flock to their bakery if you had some of their delicious breads before.
Take a look at the video below on this amazing Bronx business and family! Now I feel like getting on my bike and picking up a loaf or two!
Tanya Denise Fields, founder of Black Joy Farm in the Longwood neighborhood of The Bronx is making sure that her community doesn’t get left out when it comes to open spaces.
But Fields isn’t simply about just providing access to open spaces, which, now more than ever are more important to safely practice social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She’s also making it her mission to create spaces that cultivate joy.
Fields tells Pix11 News’ Greg Mocker, “Our mission is a place that cultivates radical joy for community residents and folks of color.”
She also discusses what we already know to be true: That not only availability of open spaces across communities aren’t equitable but that the policing of such spaces are drastically different in communities of color.
She further states, “In hyper-micro areas like Hunts Point and Longwood, we are not within walking distance of Van Cortlandt or Crotona, and some of the local parks have been shuttered. It leaves people who are already suffering to not have the ability to enjoy greenery and that’s really important.”
Watch the full interview below and if you want to reserve some time at the garden, you can reach out to them at info@theblackfeministproject.org.
Also known as The Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the 5.2 mile boulevard of dreams in The Bronx is one of New York City’s great streets steeped in history.
It is one of those streets that everyone in The Bronx knows but, do they know its history?
An address on the Grand Concourse, at one point known as the “Park Avenue” of The Bronx, was once the most sought after address in the borough.
With one of the largest collections of Art Deco apartment buildings in the world and large apartments, many with sunken living rooms and more than one bathroom, it was a place that signified to many that you had made it in New York.
While the apartments remain largely untouched, unlike in Manhattan where they were chopped up into smaller apartments, the Grand Concourse has gone through some changes throughout the over 100 years since its opening.
The idea of the Grand Concourse came from a French immigrant named Louis Aloys Risse who conceived it in 1890 as a way to connect Manhattan to the northern Bronx, which back then was known as the Annexed District.
Risse envisioned a wide boulevard stretching for miles that would rival the Champs-Élysées in Paris which was his inspiration in designing the Grand Concourse but it would stretch miles longer.
You may notice that most streets that cross the Concourse rise and fall as they approach it or go underneath it. This is because it was constructed on a ridge so that the boulevard would be elevated above all.
Construction began in 1894 and lasted 15 years. Finally in November 1909, it was open to traffic but it initially stretched from 161st Street to Mosholu Parkway just south of Van Cortlandt Park It wasn’t until 1927 that it was extended south to 138th Street when Mott Avenue was widened and renamed.
This is why you’ll notice that the roadway becomes considerably narrower below 161st Street.
But it wasn’t until the Jerome Avenue Line, aka the 4 train, was completed in 1917 people began flocking to the Grand Concourse as a construction boom took place following the subway.
Shortly there after some of the most iconic buildings opened like the Concourse Plaza Hotel in 1923 as well as Yankee Stadium that same year, the Andrew Freedman Home in 1924, Loew’s Paradise Theater in 1929, and the Bronx County Courthouse in 1933.
The first residents were mostly Jewish and Italian residents, many with professional backgrounds from doctors to lawyers and just the average American upwardly mobile middle-class family.
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission wrote:
“During the 1920s, the Bronx, anointed as “the wonder borough,” emerged as New York’s fastest growing borough, absorbing half-a-million new residents. As noted by Rosenblum, the vast majority of the newcomers to the Bronx in this era were Jewish, and for several decades the Grand Concourse and its surroundings were one of the city’s five most heavily Jewish communities.
“For nearly half a century the Grand Concourse was considered one of the city’s most prominent Jewish neighborhoods, and having a residential address on the Grand Concourse, or in proximity to that thoroughfare, was a powerful indicator of success. To this end, the modern and sophisticated new buildings were often marketed for upper-middle class tenants in the tradition of the grand apartment houses of Manhattan.
“The Franz Sigel (aka Alexandria) and the Virginia (774 and 780 Grand Concourse, 1926), for example, were touted in real estate brochures as “a bit of Park Avenue transplanted to the Bronx.”
But there was an unspoken rule not to rent to Black and Puerto Rican families, at least during the early years. Even as recently as the 70s, in the midst of the decline, there were many families of color who were simply turned away from obtaining an apartment on the famed boulevard.
By the 1960s, white flight had taken root with many of the South Bronx white family fleeing deteriorating conditions and moving to other parts of the borough like Co-op City which had just opened. Others fled to the suburbs which were rapidly expanding during this period as a result of this outward migration.
But despite deteriorating conditions from the 60s through the 80s, the Grand Concourse held on. The fires that ravaged the South Bronx seemed to have left the boulevard relatively unscathed and intact.
However, inside many buildings, that wasn’t the case. Many were left to rot with slumlords not taking care of their properties now that they were occupied by tenants of color. The once grand lobbies were a shell of their former glory.
It wasn’t until the early 2000s, when crime began dropping, that things started to turn around. Interest in preserving the history of the Grand Concourse grew and in 2011, a large portion stretching from 153rd Street to 167th Street was designated as the Grand Concourse Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Sadly, one of the most beloved landmarks, PS 31, was left to rot by the city and eventually demolished. In its the tallest building on the Grand Concourse is rising.
Today, the Grand Concourse is a reflection of The Bronx and the faces you see are a beautifully diverse representation of the diversity that is the people of The Bronx. Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Black, African, Muslim, Christians, Jews—you name it.
And interest in the famed and historic boulevard is once again on the rise as more and more people are buying co-op apartments as the area quickly gentrifies. Apartments are shattering records as median sales prices along the Concourse have seen a 68% increase since 2014 and the apartments have sold above $600,000 breaking records.
We can only hope that future generations can enjoy the beauty of the Grand Concourse from all walks of life and not just a select few as was during its beginnings.
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After years of escaping accusations of fraud, the law finally has caught up with Assemblywoman Carmen.
The New York State Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling that would have allowed Arroyo to remain on the ballot for the upcoming democratic primary due to fraud.
Earlier this year, Amanda Séptimo, who is running against the incumbent Arroyo who’s held the seat for 26 years, had charged the assemblywoman with fraudulent collection of petition signatures which are needed to appear on the ballot.
Arroyo’s signatures were found to be full of dates that had been altered as well as signatures dated days before it was permissible.
Séptimo released the following statement regarding the decision:
“I am heartened by the New York State Court of Appeals’ decision to remove my opponent, Carmen Arroyo, from the ballot due to widespread fraud.
“Insurgent candidates often see the election process weaponized against us. Yet this was not a case of technicalities —but rather what happens when people believe the rules of our democracy no longer apply to them. With this decision, the court has made clear that every candidate must campaign honestly.
“For years, the South Bronx has been stuck in cycles of poverty and stagnation because of leaders that could not see behind their own interests —and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our community makes this clearer than ever. Our community deserves leadership that is thoughtful, compassionate, and willing to do what it takes to reform broken systems.
“I look forward to continuing a campaign that centers conversations about how to do the work that moves us all forward!”
Arroyo has yet to release a statement but we can certainly say this is a new day in the South Bronx and finally some new blood can represent its people.
This article was updated on May 22, 2020 at 9:12PM EST to add Amanda Séptimo’s statement.
by Jeremy Howard, University of San Francisco
I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late March, I decided to use public mask-wearing as a case study to show my students how to combine and analyze diverse types of data and evidence.
Much to my surprise, I discovered that the evidence for wearing masks in public was very strong. It appeared that universal mask-wearing could be one of the most important tools in tackling the spread of COVID-19. Yet the people around me weren’t wearing masks and health organizations in the U.S. weren’t recommending their use.
I, along with 18 other experts from a variety of disciplines, conducted a review of the research on public mask-wearing as a tool to slow the spread SARS-CoV-2. We published a preprint of our paper on April 12 and it is now awaiting peer review at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Since then, there have been many more reviews that support mask-wearing.
On May 14, I and 100 of the world’s top academics released an open letter to all U.S. governors asking that “officials require cloth masks to be worn in all public places, such as stores, transportation systems, and public buildings.”
Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone wears a mask – as do the governments covering 90% of the world’s population – but, so far, only 12 states in the U.S. require it. In the majority of the remaining states, the CDC recommendation has not been enough: Most people do not currently wear masks. However, things are changing fast. Every week more and more jurisdictions require mask use in public. As I write this, there are now 94 countries that have made this move.
So what is this evidence that has led myself and so many scientists to believe so strongly in masks?
The research that first convinced me was a laser light-scattering experiment. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health used lasers to illuminate and count how many droplets of saliva were flung into the air by a person talking with and without a face mask. The paper was only recently published officially, but I saw a YouTube video showing the experiment in early March. The results are shockingly obvious in the video. When the researcher used a simple cloth face cover, nearly all the droplets were blocked.
This evidence is only relevant if COVID-19 is transmitted by droplets from a person’s mouth. It is. There are many documented super-spreading cases connected with activities – like singing in enclosed spaces – that create a lot of droplets.
The light-scattering experiment cannot see “micro-droplets” that are smaller than 5 microns and could contain some viral particles. But experts don’t think that these are responsible for much COVID-19 transmission.
While just how much of a role these small particles play in transmission remains to be seen, recent research suggests that cloth masks are also effective at reducing the spread of these smaller particles. In a paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers found that micro-droplets fell out of the air within 1.5 meters of the person who was wearing a mask, versus 5 meters for those not wearing masks. When combined with social distancing, this suggests that masks can effectively reduce transmission via micro-droplets.
Another recent study showed that unfitted surgical masks were 100% effective in blocking seasonal coronavirus in droplets ejected during breathing.
If only people with symptoms infected others, then only people with symptoms would need to wear masks. But experts have shown that people without symptoms pose a risk of infecting others. In fact, four recent studies show that nearly half of patients are infected by people who do not themselves have symptoms.
This evidence seems, to me, clear and simple: COVID-19 is spread by droplets. We can see directly that a piece of cloth blocks those droplets and the virus those droplets contain. People without symptoms who don’t even know they are sick are responsible for around half of the transmission of the virus.
We should all wear masks.
After going through all of this strong evidence in late March and early April, I wondered why mask-wearing was controversial amongst health organizations in the Western world. The U.S. and European CDCs did not recommend masks, and neither did nearly any western government except for Slovakia and Czechia, which both required masks in late March.
I think there were three key problems.
The first was that most researchers were looking at the wrong question – how well a mask protects the wearer from infection and not how well a mask prevents an infected person from spreading the virus. Masks function very differently as personal protective equipment (PPE) versus source control.
Masks are very good at blocking larger droplets and not nearly as good at blocking tiny particles. When a person expels droplets into the air, they quickly evaporate and shrink to become tiny airborne particles called droplet nuclei. These are extremely hard to remove from the air. However, in the moist atmosphere between a person’s mouth and their mask, it takes nearly a hundred times as long for a droplet to evaporate and shrink into a droplet nuclei.
This means that nearly any kind of simple cloth mask is great for source control. The mask creates humidity, this humidity prevents virus-containing droplets from turning into droplet nuclei, and this allows the fabric of the mask to block the droplets.
Unfortunately, nearly all of the research that was available at the start of this pandemic focused on mask efficacy as PPE. This measure is very important for protecting health care workers, but does not capture their value as source control. On Feb. 29, the U.S. surgeon general tweeted that masks “are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.” This missed the key point: They are extremely effective at preventing its spread, as our review of the literature showed.
The second problem was that most medical researchers are used to judging interventions on the basis of randomized controlled trials. These are the foundation of evidence based medicine. However, it is impossible and unethical to test mask-wearing, hand-washing or social distancing during a pandemic.
Experts like Trisha Greenhalgh, the author of the best-selling textbook “How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Healthcare,” are now asking, “Is Covid-19 evidence-based medicine’s nemesis?” She and others are suggesting that when a simple experiment finds evidence to support an intervention and that intervention has a limited downside, policymakers should act before a randomized trial is done.
The third problem is that there is a shortage of medical masks around the world. Many policymakers were concerned that recommending face coverings for the public would lead to people hoarding medical masks. This led to seemingly contradictory guidance where the CDC said there was no reason for the public to wear masks but that masks needed to be saved for medical workers. The CDC has now clarified its stance and recommends the public use of homemade masks while saving higher-grade masks for medical professionals.
There are numerous studies that suggest if 80% of people wear a mask in public, then COVID-19 transmission could be halted. Until a vaccine or a cure for COVID-19 is discovered, cloth face masks might be the most important tool we currently have to fight the pandemic.
Given all of the laboratory and epidemiological evidence, the low cost of wearing masks – which can be made at home with no tools – and the potential to slow COVID-19 transmission with widescale use, policymakers should ensure that everyone wears a mask in public.
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Jeremy Howard, Distinguished Research Scientist, University of San Francisco
Jeremy Howard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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