Five experts interviewed by ABC News all agreed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director Robert Redfield, saying that masks are, in fact, our strongest weapons against the pandemic.
"I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a," said Redfield, in testimony given to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.
During his Senate testimony, Redfield explained that a vaccine might not be 100% effective at producing an immune response strong enough to stave off infection. Masks, however, provide an evidence-backed protective barrier. "The first-generation COVID vaccines are not expected to render all vaccines impervious to infection -- as they won't be like the current measles vaccine -- but to modify illness so that severity and need for hospitalization is lower. So, even among the vaccinated, there will still be infections that occur, they will just be less frequent and less severe," he said.People wearing face masks walk on a pedestrian street in Lyon, France, on Aug.
"An effective vaccine that is readily available and utilized by the majority of the population is the single best method that humans have developed to prevent disease -- other than providing clean water," said Goepfert.
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