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U.S. Reports Nearly 50,000 New Coronavirus Cases, Another Single-Day Record

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Some conservatives and libertarians have made opposition to masks a political cause, but, as cases surge, a growing number of Republican governors are trying to send a different message. Vice President Mike Pence has abruptly started wearing and recommending masks. Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming shared a photograph on Twitter of her father, the former vice president, wearing a cowboy hat and pale blue surgical mask, adding the hashtag #realmenwearmasks. Some Republicans have shunned masks because Mr. Trump has declined to wear them and stressed that doing so was voluntary. I dont think Im going to be doing it, he said in April. On Tuesday, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the Republican chairman of the Senate Health Committee, appealed to the president to wear one. The new entreaties follow months of misinformation, debate and confusion about the question of wearing a mask. Early in the pandemic, government officials instructed Americans not to buy or wear masks. In April, they revised that guidance, advising that cloth face coverings were recommended. Most of the public does not appear to have an aversion to masks. In a New York Times/Siena College poll published last week, 54 percent of people said they always wear a mask when they expect to be in proximity to other people, while another 22 percent said they usually wear a mask. Masks will soon be mandated in at least 19 states. Mr. Trump spoke less skeptically about masks on Wednesday than he has in the past. Asked whether Americans should be required to wear them, he said: Well, I dont know if you need mandatory because you have many places in the country where people stay very long distance. You talk about social distancing. But Im all for masks. I think masks are good. I would wear one if I were in a group of people and I was close. Mr. Trump said that he had worn a mask before, but that it was usually not necessary, because he and anyone allowed
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