MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has shared a photo of him wearing a mask and gloves, apparently as a precaution against coronavirus. On Tuesday, Sixx tweeted out the picture and wrote in an accompanying caption: "If your [sic] going out protect yourself and those around you…" Experts have repeatedly said that wearing masks or gloves isn't a solution, saying that masks are only recommended for people who are sick and for health-care workers. Earlier this month, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged people to stop buying masks, explaining that "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus." He added on Twitter: "But if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!" Gloves are similarly not recommended. "This isn't something the general public would be wearing," Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Today.com. "I don't think they're going to do anything but give people a false sense of security, waste time and create more demand for something that's unnecessary, just like masks." Stephen Gluckman, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania, concurred, saying: "It's not recommended [for the general public] because it doesn't work. They're wasting money and giving people a false sense that they're doing something." The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the spread of the new coronavirus, which began in China in late December, a pandemic on March 11. More than 200,000 cases have been reported worldwide and more than 8,000 deaths so far, putting public health systems and emergency services under immense pressure.
If your going out protect yourself and those around you… pic.twitter.com/HMnxCQvaU3
— xxıS ıʞʞıN (@NikkiSixx) March 18, 2020
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If your going out protect yourself and those around you… pic.twitter.com/HMnxCQvaU3
— xxıS ıʞʞıN (@NikkiSixx) March 18, 2020
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