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Face masks with windows mean more than smiles to deaf people

by Associated Press
| June 14, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Michael Conley felt especially isolated these past few months: A deaf man, he was prevented from reading lips by the masks people wore to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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