“But if you don’t have a choice and a cloth mask is your only option, then a cloth mask is still better than no mask.”Kwong compared masks to seatbelts, even in areas with high vaccination rates. The researchers found that surgical masks were the next best, while neck gaiters, bandanas and knit masks performed poorly. Most layered cloth masks did a “perfectly adequate job in preventing or reducing droplet emission,” Fischer added, noting people should use “common sense” in evaluating masks. This, despite an increasing body of research concluding that COVID is indeed airborne. “If you wear a high-performance mask, then it will remove almost all particles from the air that you breathe in.

Source: thestar November 16, 2021 15:50 UTC