In light of Covid-19 Fast Life Hacks looks at the difference between respirator filtering standards such as N95 and FFP2/FFP3… Masks vs Respirators Before we go any further, let’s just clarify on a technical difference between a “mask” and a “respirator”. In day to day language we...
Whilst we can anticipate surgical masks to be inferior to respirators, the studies above suggest they are not as inferior as one might assume. For example the first two studies didn’t find a significant difference between surgical masks and N95 respirators, when protecting wearers against influe...