HOUSTON - As the U.S. faces a record number of new daily cases of the novel coronavirus, it’s also grappling with the issue of some Americans still refusing to wear a mask in public despite health officials warning that we must do so in order to keep the economy open and potentially save tens of thousands of lives.“We’re in this for the long haul and one of the things that can absolutely keep cases down, and it’s been shown in studies, is having everyone wear a mask.
Everyone needs to wear a mask,” said Dr. Hilary Fairbrother, an emergency medicine physician in Houston, Texas, a state that this week saw its highest one-day total of cases since the pandemic began.A man wearing a face mask walks past a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles,.