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Can Masks Help Us Build COVID Immunity?

September 17, 2020

For our new episode, we spoke with Dr. Monica Gandhi. Dr. Gandhi is an infectious disease specialist and professor at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital. She and her colleagues have developed a theory that face masks – among their numerous other benefits — might be helping populations develop a type of immunity to COVID, a theory published recently in the New England Journal  of Medicine.