This is a rapidly evolving situation. Contact your local health officials and resources such as those for the most recent information Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly. You can find a guide with state health departments here. This story will be updated as new information becomes available.
- The current recommendations of the CDC on effective mask wear are to wear a multi-layered mask or to wear one disposable mask under a cloth mask. The CDC also says that you should choose a mask or masks that fit your face well.
- The new recommendations come from new research, and experts emphasize that one high-quality, well-fitted mask, such as a KN95, works as well as two well-fitted cloth masks.
- Do you want to ensure that your mask fits best? A new video from UNC Health shows a trick that can improve the fit of a mask with ruffles.
It has been almost a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, which led the United States to implement widespread closures and mandates with mask bearers. As businesses start, masks are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Masks not only keep others primarily safe, they can also help keep you healthy.
The CDC recommends that you wear one mask with multiple coats or two masks – one disposable mask under a cloth mask – and a distance of at least six feet from others not in your immediate household, keep to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases, such as flu.
A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that changing an ear mask and adjusting it more tightly on the face, it can help becomes up to 20 percent more effective. The better the fit, the better the filtration.
UNC Health posted a video on its YouTube channel featuring Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Ph.D., Director of Infection Prevention at UNC Hospitals, showing simple trick that can help make ruffle mask fit tighter. (Sickbert-Bennett was one of the authors of the recent study on the effectiveness of masks.)
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It according to the CDC improves the fit of a surgical mask. As shown above, simply tie the ruffles of the mask where it joins the edge of the mask, then fold and stick the unnecessary material under the edges.
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