Growing Body Of Evidence Suggests Masks Protect Those Wearing Them, Too

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Monica Gandhi of the University of California, San Francisco, about growing evidence that masks help lower the severity of the coronavirus for those who wear them.

 

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It's not about if the mask protects the wearer. It's about blocking the spread of any infected to uninfected. Always was. Seeing how many stupid/ignorant/delusional exist, I'll keep my n95s

No mention of what type of mask. No specific locations. No specific examples. Vague reference to a JAMA article last year. Yet, there is a growing body of evidence. Yeah, right. 🙄

POTUS realDonaldTrump

Nice! DoMoreThanTheGuidines😷 and CrushTheSecondWave

I don't get how it takes all this time for folks to figure out that masks protect us from spreading & inhaling infected spittle. You're creating a barrier- like a rubber or an umbrella.

On a lighter note- if there are hamster studies, as the Dr says, then there must be a picture of a hamster wearing tiny mask, right?

Honest question, if medical professionals have been wearing masks/PPE for years, haven't there already been studies on their efficacy?

TerryMondry Really mindblowing COVID-19 avoidance info from a source I trust. Stay safe, my friends.😘

Bullshit

The real revelation here is that the *amount* of virus you're exposed to dictates if or *how sick* you will get. In countries or locations where mask usage is 100%, when there's an outbreak, 95% of cases are asymptomatic!

oh wow who would have thought...

And here.

I’ve been saying it since end of March.

MackayIM No serious person ever doubted this.

of course. If a mask is of homogeneous material, how could it fail to work both ways, maybe 5% but I bet higher, depending on mask. It has to have some filtering capacity each way. Will drop with distance and force. We have squandered lives telling people it only protects others.

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