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Antï Dïsease 🗿😷💉×9 Oct 18, 2024

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

Auscandoc Jul 23, 2024

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”

Study reaffirms that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission

A new study in <em>The Lancet</em> demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with variations according to the type of face covering worn.

World Socialist Web Site

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Richard Rathe Nov 19, 2023

@MatWright

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.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 31, 2023

#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

Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now

Does wearing a face mask help to prevent COVID? Four years after the pandemic began, here's what scientists have learned.

CBS News

Hulk Smash COVID Oct 4, 2023

#N95 respirator masks are different than #SurgicalMasks (aka "baggy blues", this is a good video short done by @whn about the difference:

https://youtu.be/PLdecrPjG8g?si=2Fdwxgv5vwyNGBpL

#covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUpN95 #MasksInHealthcare

What is the difference between respirators and surgical masks?

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Just Your Luck, You'll Survive Oct 1, 2023

Maybe they should develop #Elastomerics to look like #FloppyBlues #SurgicalMasks to freaking "normalize" them...

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #MaskUp #Covid

Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦May 18, 2023

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

#respirator #surgicalmasks #HAI #HCAI #iatrogenic #Filters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovSLAuY8ib8

[breathe]™ 2 Reusable Mask

Phys.org Apr 26, 2023

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

A desktop charger with enough voltage to replenish the electric charge on N95 and surgical masks

Get home, take off your mask and toss it in the bin. This daily ritual might change soon, however, thanks to scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo.

Medical Xpress