Yep, I read it.
What he said was, "“I think there’s enough evidence to say that the best benefit is for people who have COVID-19 to protect them from giving COVID-19 to other people, but you’re still going to get a benefit from wearing a mask if you don’t have COVID-19,” said Chin-Hong."
This is who Chin-Hong is ...
Brown University | M.D. | | School of Medicine |
University of California, San Francisco | Residency | | School of Medicine |
University of California, San Francisco | Certificate | | Medicine (Advanced Training in Clinical Research) |
University of California, San Francisco | | | Teaching Scholars Program |
"Peter Chin-Hong is Associate Dean for Regional Campuses. He is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems, such as solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and HIV+ organ transplant recipients.
When he says, "I think," I'm willing to trust he knows what he is talking about.
He directs the immunocompromised host infectious diseases program at UCSF. His research focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases in patients with suppressed immune systems."