Wait, are we supposed to be wearing face masks now?
These experts insist that while it’s true that face masks are hardly a cure-all and don’t replace more important measures such as social distancing, they could still help. That’s particularly the case for essential workers who can’t avoid crowded areas like public transportation. Although regular surgical masks are hardly ideal for protection they do seem to be better than nothing.
One key point is that health authorities have long recommended masks for those who are sick in order to prevent them from infecting others. And considering COVID-19 has a lot of asymptomatic cases, widespread use of masks could help prevent those who do not know they are carrying the virus from spreading it to others. “It’s really a perfectly good public health intervention that’s not used,”
. “It’s not to protect yourself. It’s to protect people against the droplets coming out of your respiratory tract.” Plus if everyone is wearing them it reduces any stigma attached to the face masks themselves.avoid touching their face . But in order to be most effective, the general public needs to receive some training on how to properly wear protective equipment. “I think the average person, if they were taught how to wear a mask properly … would have some protection against infection in the community,” Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said.
The key problem though is supply. As surely everyone knows by now, masks are really difficult to obtain and calling on the general public to wear them would decrease those available for health care workers and other emergency workers. After all, it’s difficult to call for a widespread use of masks when hospital workers are being told to
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