Billionaire Salesforce founder Marc Benioff claimed the coronavirus would disappear from the US in 3 weeks if everyone wore a mask
- American billionaire Marc Benioff claimed in a CNBC interview on Monday that if everyone in the US wore a mask, the coronavirus crisis would be over in the country in three weeks.
- "We would not have anymore coronavirus because there would be no more spread, but people do not want to wear masks," he told "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer.
- Benioff didn't provide any specific evidence for the three week claim, although there is growing evidence that face masks help prevent transmission of the virus.
- Mask wearing is encouraged by the US' top medical and disease officials, including Anthony Fauci and Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
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American billionaire Marc Benioff claimed in a CNBC interview on Monday that if everyone in the US wore a mask, the coronavirus crisis would be over in the country in three weeks.
"Masks are so important," he said on CNBC's "Mad Money." See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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