Doing this one simple thing while wearing a face mask could help end the pandemic

[Andy Meek]

• The regular coronavirus update we get from one day to the next tends to include reminders about actions we can take to protect our own health and the health of others, like social distancing and wearing a face mask.
• Health experts are starting to remind people that there's also a simple activity we can do to complement wearing a face mask that can help limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
• That activity is controlling our speaking volume and not talking loudly around others -- which can spread coronavirus particles.

At this point, most of the coronavirus updates we get these days come with reminders of the basic actions we can take to bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic that everyone should already be aware of by now. Social distancing, avoiding crowds, and wearing face masks are those actions at the top of the list, and universally regarded as such by health experts -- but don't let that fool you into thinking there's nothing else you can do to help curb the continued spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Indeed, experts also point to one simple action we should all be taking along with things like wearing face masks in public. Those experts include Jose Jimenez, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder who studies disease transmission, and who recently told The Atlantic that we all need to stop talking so loudly.

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