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- The coronavirus transmission rate can be reduced with a combination of three actions: frequent hand hygiene, social distancing, and face masks.
- The virus can spread via the air, a recent study showed just after the World Health Organization acknowledged that airborne transmission is real.
- The virus spreads while talking, sneezing, and coughing, and a face mask is the kind of obstacle that can stop the droplets and aerosols.
- A new study explains which type of homemade face cover is the safest by comparing cloth masks made of a different number of layers.
Wearing face masks while you’re sharing the same space with other people can reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus and possibly save the lives of everyone in the room and their loved ones. That includes the people who will email me to tell me how masks actually don’t work, how this is all a ploy from the government to get you to comply and other reasons that anti-maskers currently peddle. Face masks aren’t 100% effective at blocking the infections, and even if you wear them, you can still get infected. Combined with social distancing and frequent handwashing, they give you a better chance to stall for time until effective vaccines and drugs are here.
Considering the virus can spread with ease indoors, and nobody is spared, we should really take advantage of every edge we can get over the pathogen and prevent infection for as long as possible. If science can prove that tattooing the longest word in the dictionary in bolded caps somewhere where it really hurts would reduce the risk of infection, you should take advantage of that knowledge. There’s no research for that, but there’s increasing work that proves the virus spread with ease through the air, via liquid and gas particles, and that blocking your mouth and nose can prevent those particles from getting in and out.
A recent study explained what cloth face masks are the most effective, and a brand new one further refines that research, revealing what sort of homemade masks you should consider making yourself.
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New study reveals which type of homemade mask is the safest originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 12:03:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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