Nevada Mayor Warns Of Consequences If Masks Not Worn.

On June 24, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak issued a mandatory face covering policy for all Nevadans and visitors by signing Directive 024. Click here for full announcement.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) warns that “Cloth face coverings are recommended as a simple barrier to help prevent respiratory droplets from traveling into the air and onto other people when the person wearing the cloth face covering coughs, sneezes, talks, or raises their voice. This is called source control.

This recommendation is based on what we know about the role respiratory droplets play in the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, paired with emerging evidence from clinical and laboratory studies that shows cloth face coverings reduce the spray of droplets when worn over the nose and mouth. COVID-19 spreads mainly among people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet), so the use of cloth face coverings is particularly important in settings where people are close to each other or where social distancing is difficult to maintain.”