Surgical masks bad. Illustrated to help health care professionals understand that they need better masks.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious #BetterMasks #N95 #FFP3 #surgicalmasks
Study reaffirms that masks prevent #COVID19 transmission - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/19/jykb-j19.html “The study found that wearing an #N95 respirator resulted in the highest reduction in exhaled viral load at an average 98 percent decrease, significantly outperforming all other masks and respirators. #KN95 respirators reduced viral load by 71 percent, #ClothMasks by 87 percent, and #SurgicalMasks by 74 percent”
I respectfully disagree on one point: #SurgicalMasks also protect patients FROM infection (during surgery for example).This was their main function originally.
You are correct that surg masks are much less effective protecting the WEARER from small aerosolized particles like #Covid.
It takes #N95 or equivalent #masks /#respirators to do that.
But if all you’ve got is a surg mask, wear it! It’s not nothin’.
Also anyone with a #cough who enters a confined public space should wear some kind of mask as a courtesy to those around them IMO.
When someone coughs, surg masks DO decrease how much infectious material gets into the air, on surfaces, etc.
It’s a big world out there with many respiratory pathogens (#flu and #TB come to mind). Not all of them a aerosolized like Covid.
#Facemask effectiveness: What science knows now
Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech University professor specializing in aerosol science, said her team aerosolized the #coronavirus, pulled it through a mask, and then examined how much virus survived on the mask. The study reported some viral particle remained on some #clothmasks, but no virus survived on the #N95 or #surgicalmasks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-mask-effectiveness-what-science-knows-now-60-minutes/ #COVID #COVID19 #MaskUp #MaskOn
#N95 respirator masks are different than #SurgicalMasks (aka "baggy blues", this is a good video short done by @whn about the difference:
Maybe they should develop #Elastomerics to look like #FloppyBlues #SurgicalMasks to freaking "normalize" them...
The difference between
a respirator and a surgical mask
A respirator for airborne infectious deceases.
Preventable.Affordably.
* HEPA filters ($100) in every exam room
* Respirators on all medical staff https://prescientx.com/products/breathe™2-kit
Video by OSHA. Posted with no irony as a resource on the @WorkSafeBC website.
Beards
https://youtube.com/shorts/9JxjGdCyOIE
Doctors
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Bi5lqNP508
https://whn.global/app/uploads/2023/03/medical-clean-air-release-NN2023.03.04.pdf
Referenced link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-desktop-charger-voltage-replenish-electric.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-desktop-charger-voltage-replenish-electric.html
Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/medical_xpress/status/1651261366819340292#m
RT by @physorg_com: A desktop charger with enough voltage to replenish the electric charge on N95 and #surgicalmasks @cellpressnews https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2405844023025665 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-desktop-charger-voltage-replenish-electric.html
"Study: Wearing surgical masks over N95s can cause dangerous leaks"
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-wearing-surgical-masks-over-n95s-can-cause-dangerous-leaks
Battling the global COVID-19 scammers and fake news hawkers - Europol seized 34K fake surgical masks, while the office of NY's AG wants registrars to explain ho... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/25/battling-the-global-covid-19-scammers-and-fake-news-hawkers/ #counterfeitsurgicalmasks #counterfeitmedicine #fraudulentvaccine #operationpangea #surgicalmasks #counterfeits #coronacures #coronavirus #law&order #infodemic #fakenews #covid-19 #pandemic #europol #vaccine
