During a coronavirus-related Q&A show on NJ.com, Dr. Henry Raymond, associate professor and epidemiologist at Rutgers School of Public Health, and Dr. Amisha Malhotra, an associate professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Rutgers School of Medicine Robert Wood Johnson made it clear that unless you use a mask that covers mouth and noseSo the mask is not doing its job.
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The question asked was fairly simple and focused on the near ubiquity of seeing people in masks covering their mouth but not their nose. So is a mask effective when people wear it right under their noses? The doctors answered clearly “No. A mask is not effective if worn under the nosebecause the respiratory drops come from both sneezing and coughing. “
The use of a mask or facial covering has been universally accepted by medical and public health experts as the best way to stop the spread of COVID-19 and return to a certain sense of normalcy. Expert projections have even been updated to show that if everyone wore a mask, tens of thousands of lives would be saved. But unless everyone wears a mask the right way, it’s not with the effort.
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“Nasal secretions can contain the coronavirus in an infected person, and covering the nose can help prevent transmission, as the virus can infect an individual by entering the nostrils,” the doctors continued. “This means that if you sneeze outdoors, you can put another person at risk of exposing yourself to your germs. Also, wearing a mask over your nose not only helps other people to potentially transmit the coronavirus, it also decreases your risk. , the wearer of the mask, to contract it also “.
There is increasing evidence showing how effective it is to use a universal mask to decrease the spread of COVID-19. Studies show that both countries and states that first introduced the mandatory use of masks were among the first to flatten the curve. So if you want to go to a soccer game or send your child back to school, wear her mask and put it on the right way also covering her nose.
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