Around 1.67 million deaths in India in 2019 could be attributed to air pollution, accounting for 17.8% of the total deaths. Can masks help reduce these deaths?
fine and so small, surgical masks, cloth masks do absolutely nothing. it has the n-95 or better. bill, thank you very much. that thing is huge, that cloud. it won t stop, yeah. fire has to be put out. bill karins and george solis, thank you both very much. any moment now, president biden is going to be meeting with the uk s prime minister at the white house. we re going to tell you why he is here. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc from new york, very hazy. alart from new york, very hazy she picks only the perks she wants and saves on every one! all with an incredible new iphone. act now and get iphone 14 pro on us when you switch. it s your verizon.
these conditions, a partial ground stop at newark international, we are awaiting to see if that changes, but right now that is still the case. long story short, it is not good for anybody to be outside right now, but specifically people with respiratory issues as well as young children, older adults, limit your time outside if you can. send it back to you. sandra: nate, i m curious, for a while people did not know why it was happening. they understand why i m sure now, they look at the smartphone, see the news, are you getting a sense people are running inside, what are you seeing, hearing? we are seeing a lot more people wearing masks than we were earlier in the day, not a lot of n-95, a lot of cloth masks. i say just walking to go get lunch a couple was walking by me and trying to cover their mouths with their hands, obviously it s not very effective.
glad to see you are not orange like everybody else, doc. let me put up again the map of the smoke plumes churning down from canada, we have a low pressure system, looks like it s over the vermont area, and it s just going in a counterclockwise direction dumping all the smoke down there into new york and other cities. this is the worst i ve seen, doc, since yellowstone fires of 88. what kinds of toxins are people exposed to. it s ten times worse than combustion. if you filled this from air pollution, this is ten times worse, and the biggest problem is particulate matter, like little tiny particles that are very, very small and nate was just saying people are starting to wear masks, i ve seen that in the street. but unless you wear the n95 respirator mask, this will stop most of the particles,
an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel better and might block a droplet. it s not providing the perfect protection people think it is. if you have a physical covering with one layer, it makes common sense it s more effective. that s why you seem people double masking and doing a version of an n-95. jason: that s why a lot of us looked at him and said i don t think he s driven by science. he s driven by politics. he hasn t been trusted throughout the pandemic. the cdc says we only need to wear masks when we re coming with face to face with is one with covid. it doesn t stop transmission. it does stop large drop let spread. these statements over time made him look foolish. jason: i think it s been