Looking to mask discourse as a case study, this chapter places special emphasis placed on how masks and mask wearing are influenced by social and cultural norms and ideologies which have bearing on adoption or resistance to public health recommendations and health governance....
masks have been worn for years to protect against pollution or disease, so people covered their faces as soon as they get wind of covid-19. In the West mask-wearing is alien. And in all of the countries where mask -wearing is common practice, the epidemic was swiftly...
Delta is the dominant variant in the UK and India where COVID infections have skyrocketed. Since even those who have received too shots and gained immunity can still transmit the virus, giving up the masks is feeding the chain of contagion. “The science is really settled around masks,” Din...
324). The spread of conspiracy beliefs can help people to manage the chaos and get the illusion of control (Imhoff & Lamberty, 2020), also providing the reason why a given event happens, who could be blamed, and who benefits from it and how (Karić & Međedović, 2021). Studies ...
masks. While no extant studies show surgical masks reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in humans, surgical masks do reduce viral shedding of other coronaviruses4, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in animal models5. Also, cloth masks might filter SARS-CoV-26, mainly if they are worn by the ...
The unprecedented efforts to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic introduce a new arena for human face recognition in which faces are partially occluded with masks. Here, we tested the extent to which face masks change the way faces are perceive
Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there.
Throughout the interviews, adherence to government public health guidelines was followed, including the wearing of facial masks to protect the safety and privacy of the participants. Variables Dependent variable: experience of unmet healthcare need Unmet healthcare need was measured based on self-...
The study aims at evaluating the effect of wearing face masks on voice and intelligibility of speech in Egyptian working individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify if there are any adverse effects of wearing face masks in the working environmen
Made from fibers woven with an electrical charge that can trap errant particles – like a sock that sticks to your pants in the dryer –studies have shown N95-type respiratorsare currently at the top of the line when it comes to filtering large and small particles. Masks in this category...