The real-world effectiveness of preschoolers wearing masks on campus to prevent respiratory infectious diseases: a cohort studydoi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1412884Wenhao YangJian LiuNanyang QinFrontiers in Public Health
The new study in Risk Analysis suggests that the effectiveness of cloth masks can be improved by using a non-woven material such as cotton batting. Increasing the surface area of fibers exposed to moving air improves filtering efficiency because the smaller particles are absorbed onto the fibers. ...
Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection against severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Oct;26(10):e200948. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2610.200948 Song W, Jin X, Gao J, Zhao T. Will buying follow others ease their threat of death? An analysis of ...
In particular, Wong, Teoh, Leung, Wu, Yip, Wong and Hui [9] highlighted that countries with early awareness on face mask use had lower numbers of daily COVID-19 cases. However, despite the effectiveness of wearing masks and the spread of this information in society, wearing masks was not...
by Robert Wells,University of Central Florida Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The effectiveness of face masks has been a hotly debated topic since the emergence of COVID-19. However, a new study by researchers at the University of Central Florida offers more evidence that they work. ...
Here, we wanted to extend these findings to a material suitable for the manufacture of reusable cloth masks (Konda et al. 2020; Guha et al. 2021; Stan et al. 2021) against the agent of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Three salt-coating conditions (two with spray application and ...
Types of masks Surgical masks, handkerchiefs, bikers’ masks, cloth masks, and more… do they work? While the N95 mask is the recommended mask to filter out PM2.5, aninteresting studyshows the effectiveness of other masks using a particle counter that measures down to .007 microns. The figur...
organisational resilience to respond to the challenges of VUCA 1 The concept was adopted to business literature from military discussion already two decades ago, and related challenges have been on the agenda of scholars and managers since (Bennett & Lemoine, 2014; Schoemaker et al., 2018)...
Mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a growing interest in the functional impact of masks on speech and communication. Prior work has shown that masks dampen sound, impede visual communication cues, and reduce intelligibility. However,
“The finding that surgical masks cause less of a problem than cloth masks or N95 masks is interesting,” said NIDCD’s Tucci. “However, these (surgical masks) are not always available to the public, and certainly early on use of these masks was discouraged so as not to interfere with s...