United States: District of Columbia, Washington / 2020
COVID-19 Animal Mask
COVID-19 Animal Mask
The Smithsonian catalogs COVID-19 Animal Mask as face mask in its COVID-19 (Disease) records.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic. On April 3, 2020, the CDC recommended that Americans wear face masks when they were in public spaces and unable to maintain a social distance of 6 feet or more. In the initial aftermath of this declaration, N95 masks were extremely difficult to find and some Americans began to make the