To mask or not, employer mandates, worker pushback, and the changing landscape of dining in and out. The tradeoff is between risk and your sense of safety. We can’t generalize about your sense of safety, but we can offer some guidance on risky situations.
Look across the landscape, and you can see outdoors is better than in, and small familiar, pandemic pods are better than large, rowdy crowds of strangers.
Dial those two factors in with your risk of becoming infected and suffering short, long, or permanent morbidities, and you know whether to wear a mask, social distance, or not go at all. Easy peasy
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Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA
Director of Medicine
Charles Dinerstein, MD, MBA, is the Medical Director of the American Council on Science and Health. A vascular surgeon with more than 25 years of clinical experience, he brings a physician's understanding of medical decision-making, an appreciation for scientific uncertainty, and a broader perspective on healthcare economics and policy to his writing.
