Former Biden COVID adviser: cloth masks 'are not very effective'

Biden COVID advisor admits, what I’ve been saying for a year, cut up scraps of cloth undergarments, cloth masks, don’t stop the coronavirus from going “in or out.” https://t.co/vSrlQ4SuIo

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 7, 2021

Just The News reports, "A key SARS-Cov-2 expert acknowledged this week that a mainstay of the global coronavirus response — the use of cloth masks — does little to stop the spread of the virus.

Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and an adviser on President Joe Biden's transitional COVID-19 advisory board, made the stunning claim on CNN this week amid escalating worldwide fears and concerns over the "Delta variant" of COVID-19.

"We know today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out," Osterholm said during the interview.

"We need to talk about better masking," he said. "We need to talk about N-95 respirators, which would do a lot for both people who are not yet vaccinated or not previously infected."