The masks will be available for free to all Gray employees, but the company wants the first delivery of cloth masks reserved for those full-time and part-time employees who continue to work in a Gray facility or out in the field.
Gray Television has ordered several thousand reusable cloth masks to be distributed to all of its stations, offices and other work facilities as quickly as possible.
The masks will be available for free to all Gray employees, but the company wants the first delivery of cloth masks reserved for those full-time and part-time employees who continue to work in a Gray facility or out in the field.
According to a statement from Gray, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) currently advises that the general public should not use surgical or N95 masks, as these items are critical personal protective gear that must be reserved for health-care workers.
A coronavirus-infected person is likely to be contagious even in the absence of any symptoms or signs of illness – and potentially for several days after recovery too.
For this reason, it appears that the CDC may be deciding that it would be beneficial to public health for healthy people to wear face masks in public.
Therefore, while the CDC has not yet changed its guidance, Gray Television wants to be prepared for this potential change.
Gray’s senior management team requests that each station donate a generous amount of face masks to homeless shelters in their local markets.
In the statement, Gray provided this video for details on the use of masks by the World Health Organization.
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