With President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump testing positive for COVID-19, will that inspire non-mask wearers to put on face coverings, asks Grumpy Editor.
Time will tell.
The president's condition sent him to the hospital.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for months declared wearing masks slows the spread of COVID-19 while others, including politicians, were not firm on face coverings in public places.
"For the next seven to 10 days, I think there will be an uptick in all sorts of prevention and safety behaviors, so there will be more people buying masks, more people wearing masks, more people using hand sanitizer, more people respecting social distancing," said Kelly Goldsmith, an associate professor of marketing at Vanderbilt University.
The growing coronavirus outbreak at the White House has left members of the media scrambling to find out if they, too, are infected after three journalists tested positive on Friday.
"Given these positive cases, the president's diagnosis and positive cases among members of the White House staff, a number of White House journalists are self-isolating pending diagnostic testing,” said the White House Correspondents Association.
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