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“Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2,” says CDC

By on April 10, 2020

Japan’s mask-wearing culture began when a massive pandemic of influenza killed between 20 and 40 million people around the world.

In American culture, people are averse to wearing a mask because it’s associated to looking like the bad guys.

But with the current Coronavirus going around and data showing how Western countries are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths compared to Asian countries because of the West’s aversion to wearing masks, that all changed.

The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged all Americans last week to put on some kind of cloth face coverings to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

One exception is children aged below 2 years old or “anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.”

According to the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, fourteen percent of sudden unexpected infant death cases were classified as suffocation.

The rationale behind this is that most often suffocation happens while babies are sleeping, and a cloth face mask could impair breathing.

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