Triple-Masking: The Ultimate Protection From Coronavirus?
Wearing three masks likely creates a more effective barrier for outgoing and incoming particles, but keep in mind that it will also make it more difficult to breathe.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already has confirmed that double-masking, or the wearing of two face masks at once, can provide extremely high levels of protection against spreading or contracting the novel coronavirus.
The agency’s researchers said they explored the overall effectiveness of various masking approaches via laboratory experiments, which found that when an individual wears just one mask, either surgical or cloth, it blocked about 40 percent of the viral particles. However, wearing a cloth mask on top of a surgical mask was able to block about 80 percent of particles, while 95 percent was blocked when both individuals wore two masks, the researchers added.
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