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Masks alone may not stop COVID-19 spread without physical distancing
Simply wearing a face mask may not protect you from catching the novel coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, if you are not maintaining physical distancing, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, tested how five different types of mask materials affected the spread of droplets that carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus when we cough or sneeze.
All the material the researchers tested dramatically reduced the number of droplets that were transmitted.
However, enough droplets to potentially cause the viral illness still made it through several of the materials when the physical distance was less than six feet, they said.
If You re Not Doing This, Your Mask Won t Protect You, Study Says
By Allie Hogan of Best Life |
If You re Not Doing This, Your Mask Won t Protect You, Study Says
Wearing a mask is one of the simplest and most essential steps you can take to protect yourself and help stop the spread of COVID. However, a recent study concluded that just wearing a mask that is, without adhering to other key precautions may not actually help protect you. The study, published in
The study set out to decipher whether face masks are able to provide protection from airborne sneeze and cough droplets when people are close together in face-to-face interactions. Researchers used a machine to simulate coughs and sneezes against five different types of masks, including an N95 mask, a surgical mask, a two-layer cloth mask, a regular cloth, and a wet two-layer cloth mask. They found that face masks aren t always effective in protecting people from COVID when they re not at least six feet apart.
Both masks and physical distancing is important, professor Krishna Kota said (Representational)
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Simply wearing a face mask may not protect you from catching the novel coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, if you are not maintaining physical distancing, according to a study.
The research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, tested how five different types of mask materials affected the spread of droplets that carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus, when we cough or sneeze.
All the material the researchers tested dramatically reduced the number of droplets that were transmitted.
However, enough droplets to potentially cause the viral illness still made it through several of the materials when physical distance was less than six feet, they said.
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