Insight - Is Walmart the tipping point on masks? Let’s hope so

Mask needed: A woman wearing a facemask walks past a sign informing customers that face coverings are required in front of a Walmart store in Washington DC recently. — AFP

POLITICS have been getting in the way of Americans broadly adopting a crucial preventative health measure: Wearing a mask in public to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Now, though, the experts that have been urging that practice have an enormously powerful ally in Walmart Inc.