Should You Wear A Face Mask? Yes, as 25% to 60% of Infected Are Asymptomatic. If you are going to the supermarket or other places where there are lots of people or where there have been lots of people. Photos of Face Masks (they don’t have to be white)
The Navy ship with 94% tested, 60% had covid with NO symptoms.
HOW TO MAKE A HOMEMADE FACE MASK
Another example of how to make a mask
While medical face masks should be reserved for health professionals battling the coronavirus amid a shortage of protective equipment, some experts are saying others should consider improvising their own mask.
The CDC wants the public to know homemade masks DO NOT substitute for medical-grade masks and ventilators. They should be used as a last resort and in combination with a face shield if you are a medical professional.
“Cover your face with cloth — however you want to do that,” Shan Soe-Lin, a lecturer at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, told The New York Times. “Cover your face pretty thoroughly from your mouth to your nose to prevent large aerosol droplets coming out or going in.”
New data showing as many as 25 percent of those infected are asymptomatic, has led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reconsider advising the public not to wear masks, The NY Times reported.
Coronavirus outbreak sparks face mask debate: Should you wear them?
“I think increasing evidence suggests the virus is spread not just through droplets but through aerosols,” Dr. Gerardo Chowell, an epidemiologist at Georgia State University, told the Times. “It would make a lot of sense to encourage at the very least face mask use in enclosed spaces including supermarkets.”
Studies have shown that wearing a mask can lower the risk for respiratory infection, including SARS, The Times reported.
Scientists who study airborne diseases advise that thicker fabric will give more protection, and Linsey Marr, an airborne disease expert at Virginia Tech, told the Times that thick cotton or felt are ideal. If you use a bandana, triple it up because the fabric is so thin it likely won’t give much protection.
Cloth masks should be washed every day you wear them.
Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Trump administration, told The Washington Post that homemade masks like bandanas don’t protect the wearer from the virus, but could keep the wearer from spreading infected droplets.
Gottlieb wrote a pandemic-response plan published by the American Enterprise Institute last weekend that calls for “everyone, including people without symptoms…to wear nonmedical fabric face masks while in public.”
