While some are still struggling to wear masks for a year in an epidemic, scientists are ready to work out which strategy is best – and the cotton face mask has got another tick of approval. Various studies have recommended combinations of different materials and cloth masks for the general …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week issued new guidelines, with advice on topics such as wearing a mask and quarantining after contact with COVID-19. The guidelines are in response to threats from newer, more contagious virus strains, but U.S. Indicates what life after vaccination might look …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is tightening its mask guidelines, telling people living in areas where coronaviruses are still spreading in different places to wear masks at different times. The new guidelines, which came out on Tuesday, make it clear that access to stores, workplaces and low-ventilated schools should ensure …
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The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lambested a Danish study released on Wednesday, which found that surgical masks do not protect against coronavirus. In an editorial in response to a study published in Als Null Intern Internal Medicine (AIM), former CDC director Thomas Frieden …
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Graphic: Lifehacker, Photo: Shutterstock c A recent study of masks worn in Denmark is being shared as if to prove that masks do not protect us. This is not what the study really says. I will go into the following specifics, but for now I want to show a couple …
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