Experts have suggested that face masks may inadvertently protect those who wear them by acting as a kind of crude ‘vaccine’ against coronavirus.
Researchers behind the theory say that wearing a face mask can make people less sick or asymmetrical, as the wraps reduce the amount of infection they come in contact with.
If the theory proves, the mask could be a universal form of inoculation that will generate immunity, according to experts.
Frequent exposure to low doses of Covid-19 trains the body to recognize the disease and effectively vaccinate against it.
However, the detailed theory, by scientists at the University of California, will not be proven without reasonable doubt because it would require breaches of morality, without a mask with the virus in clinical trials and to expose people.
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The theory was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Experts insisted it was just a theory and warned that mask wearers should not be happy or try to catch the virus in the hope that it builds immunity.
Infectious Disease Physician Dr. Monica Gandhi wrote in the paper: “You may have this virus but it can be asymptomatic.
“So if you can run the rate of asymptomatic infection from the mask, maybe it will become a way to diversify the population.”
He told the Sunday Telegraph: “To test the hypothesis of antagonism, we need further studies comparing the strength and durability of SARS-Cavi-2 as in people with asymptomatic infections and those with symptomatic infections, as well as T-cell immunity, as well as SRS. Demonstration of natural slow motion of SS-COV-of is more prevalent asymptomatic infection.
“Nevertheless, it is true that increasing the incidence of asymptomatic infections through masks can increase the proportion of the population that acquires at least short-term immunity to the virus while we wait for the vaccine.”
Critics are concerned that the result of the theory could lead to lethargy or unnecessary risks.
Saskia Popescu, an Arizona-based infectious disease epidemiologist who was not involved in the research, told the New York Times: “It seems like a leap. We don’t have much to support.
“We still want people to follow all other prevention strategies.
“That means being vigilant to avoid crowds, physical distance and hand hygiene – behaviors that overlap in their effect, but can’t replace one another.”
Today the U.K. About 500,500,000 cases of the deadly virus have been reported in the country, as officials obtained a rapid re-rate.
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