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The COVID-19 disease, caused by the new coronavirus, is milder in patients who wore a mask when they were infected, TASS reported, citing a Spanish expert cited by EFE.
Vicente Soriano, director of the Medical Center of the International University of Rioja, led a study that collected information on epidemic outbreaks in Madrid during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, writes BTA.
The expert explained that the study managed to “compare the level of transmission of the disease and the need for hospitalization.” For example, a household analysis was conducted in a house inhabited by nuns, where 21 out of 25 people were infected. Despite the fact that about half of the residents were over 65, none required hospitalization. The specialist relates this circumstance to the observed measures of social distancing and use of masks.
Another outbreak erupted after a meeting of a group of 10 people who spent three hours together indoors without wearing masks or standing at a distance. As a result, all of them became infected with the coronavirus and four of them required hospitalization.
“It seems that exposure to low doses of coronavirus can cause an infection, but the symptoms will be milder,” says Soriano.
According to him, the use of masks helps reduce the risk of contagion and if this happens, the forms of the disease are milder, because the concentration of the virus that has an effect is lower. In other words, wearing a mask “can immunize against severe forms of Kovid-19,” said the expert.
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