Public messaging on COVID-19 vaccination must heed warnings from confused face mask messaging

It is not surprising that face coverings are a contentious issue. As Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues comment, wearing a face covering is not simply a case of complying with medical advice [1]. However, something that was not made explicit in this article, is how much of the controversy was caused by the medical community failing to make clear why people were being asked to wear face coverings in the first place.