I honestly think we need a nationwide public education campaign to help people understand why they should stop buying masks to wear to run errands. You’re not helping anyone, including yourself, by doing that, & you’re contributing to a critical shortage among healthcare workers.
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I read https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic … that even crappy homemade masks get you about a factor of two, and there's certainly the risk of asymptomatic spread (I know fam of 4 just out of quarantine -- only 1 had symptoms) which they also reduce. But is also /
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necessary to reduce all risks -- if it's 50-50 hands and face and you get an N95 mask but don't glove and wash, all the hand risk remains -- 50%. Whack all the moles.
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Clearly med personnel need masks more than others. It has has a better cost/benefit ratio for that group. If we had enough masks for all, CDC would most probably recommend them and do an info campaign on how to use them properly.
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So what Caroline Orr
@RVAwonk is saying is a crock.
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they need N95 masks in the field.
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