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CDC: Wearing a mask could keep you from catching virus

by Mike Stobbe
| November 13, 2020 2:36 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are taking a new tack to encourage Americans to wear masks: They're emphasizing recent research that a mask protects the person who wears it.

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