here, because maybe the deaths aren t as high as with past variants, but the systemic issues as to how the country can operate with so many people getting sick, that s what they re trying to address at the moment, a shifting message over the course of the last several weeks. making it very clear this can be dealt with, tools are there, people just need to pay attention and use those tools. at the briefing, fairmount was talking about masks. was there a decision there? there is not going to be a mandatory use of n-95 masks, kn-95 masks, however they have a strong desire to make those masks more available. the primary message from walensky was any mask is better than no mask, but kn-95 and n-95