"Surgeon general urges the public to stop buying face masks amid coronavirus outbreak... “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” the surgeon general, Jerome M. Adams, said in ..

   "Surgeon general urges the public to stop buying face masks amid coronavirus outbreak... "Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!" the surgeon general, Jerome M. Adams, said in a tweet on Saturday morning. "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/surgeon-general-urges-the-public-to-stop-buying-face-masks/