Wearing a mask reduces your risk of catching Covid from fellow passengers on subways, buses and planes, regardless of what other people do.
Ground transportation doesn't have the same level of air filtration as planes, but wearing a mask still lowers the risk of infection.
He said he plans to keep wearing a mask on public transit and will move at least a few feet away from people who aren't masked when possible."Distances like 3 feet or 6 feet are not very relevant to transmission in situations where people are exposed in a closed airspace for an extended period of time," he said.
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