The Impact of Media Coverage on the US Presidential Election

It's unclear how impactful Defecti's piece was. Was the CDC on a clear path to recommending masks, regardless? Did you only speed up the trajectory by a few days or weeks? Though it's also possible she was more influential than that. Other health agencies in the world were very slow to adopt masking recommendations. It seems good to have incisive writers applying critical scrutiny to public health pronouncements.