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Resources with keywords: facemask



ARCHIVED: Where to Buy N95s, KN95s, and Surgical-Style Masks You Can Trust (Document, News)
NYT Wirecutter
29 July 2021
keywords: covid-19, facemask, N95, PPE
ARCHIVED: Why some experts recommend upgrading to N95 masks to help fight the delta variant (Document, News)
Washington Post
24 July 2021
ARCHIVED: Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children (Website, Publication)
JAMA

Walach H, Weikl R, Prentice J, et al.
A large-scale survey3 in Germany of adverse effects in parents and children using data of 25 930 children has shown that 68% of the participating children had problems when wearing nose and mouth coverings.

keywords: covid-19, facemask
Choosing Safer Activities (Website, Regulatory)
CDC

This page includes multiple examples of outdoor activites and the risk for unvaccinated individual wearing the covering by unvaccinated

A comparison of performance metrics for cloth masks as source control devices for simulated cough and exhalation aerosols (Website, Publication)
Aerosol Science and Technology
14 June 2021

Lindsley WG, et.al.(2021) , , 55:10, 1125-1142, DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2021.1933377

Lindsley WG, et al.
The authors studied the source control performance of 15 cloth masks, two medical masks, and two N95 filtering facepiece respirators by measuring their ability to block aerosols < or = to 7 micrometers

keywords: covid-19, facemask
ARCHIVED: The Yankees Covid Outbreak May Be Bad News for Ditching Masks (Website, News)
WIRED
13 May 2020

The spate of cases is a bad bounce—and it might show that lifting mask mandates for the vaxxed won’t be a grand slam.

Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools — Georgia, November 16–December 11, 2020 (Website, Publication)
CDC/MMWR
28 May 2021

Gettings J, Czarnik M, Morris E, et al.

keywords: covid-19, facemask, HVAC
Mask use in the context of COVID-19 (NEW 5/14, Website, Regulatory)
WHO
1 December 2020

This document provides updated guidance on mask use in health care and community settings, and during home care for COVID-19 cases. It is intended for policy makers, public health and infection prevention and control professionals, health care managers and health workers.

Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 (NEW 5/14, Website, Regulatory)
CDC

Data were added from studies published since the last update that further demonstrate that mask wearing reduces new infections. Data were added that demonstrate the importance of mask fit to improve performance and reduce community exposure to SARS-CoV-2. A section was added on the health effects of mask wearing

CDC Tightens Its N95 Guidances (Website, Publication)
EHS Today
15 April 2021

Agency says end of mask shortages means less need for alternative policies.

keywords: covid-19, facemask
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