Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates

Masks have been a ubiquitous and oft-politicized aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Years of painstakingly organized pre-pandemic planning documents led public health experts to initially discourage the use of masks, or even insinuate that they could lead to increased rates of spread.Yet seemingly in a matter of days in spring 2020, leading infectious disease scientists and organizations reversed th...