Experts are disputing the usefulness of masks as a tool to block transmission of the new SARS-like virus. FMTNews Flimsy Mask Sars Virus
Cheap, mass-made and usually readily available at convenience stores, experts dispute the usefulness of masks as a tool to block transmission of the new SARS-like virus.
Cheap, mass-made and usually readily available at convenience stores, experts dispute the usefulness of masks as a tool to block transmission of the new SARS-like virus. Satoshi Hiroi, a senior researcher at the Osaka Institute of Public Health, told AFP, that high-quality masks could be effective, referring to more expensive, tight-fitting respirators used to filter fine particulates of dust and pollution.
Others wore heavier duty – and more effective – PM2.5 or 3M masks, in a city shrouded for weeks by damaging pollution. “We know that it does not provide 100% protection but it is better than nothing… it can also reassure the public.”On Monday the mayor of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, took an online battering after wearing his mask inside-out.
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