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Face Masks Laced with Graphene Pose a Health Risk
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/24/face-masks-laced-with-graphene-pose-a-health-risk/
I don't know if I should laugh or cry!
#Swedish government who refused to mandate a facemask at home, is sending one million #facemasks to #Ukraine
#WTF #Facepalm #Pandemie #COVID19
https://twitter.com/EmilBergholtz/status/1498990289704583175
https://nitter.42l.fr/Metropoles/status/1481729011579383809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw#m
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"What will be the consequences of the lockdown, how might we get out of it, and what will the new economic order look like after all this is over?" Must-watch UK programme interviewing four experts from the world of health, economics and law.
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John Campbell, RN PhD, in his April. 4, 2020 update notes that the coronavirus can be spread through aerosolized transmission (3m44s), meaning amounts which can be suspended in air for hours, and not just droplets, which rapidly fall to the ground, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the US White House Coronavirus Task Force. This revises previous understanding and is why universal wearing of even homemade masks is recommended when out in public.
Looking for a specific recommendation, the closest I find is this statement of Fauci's:
"Because of that and because of some recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak, as opposed to coughing and sneezing, the better part of valor is that when you’re out, and you can’t maintain that six-foot distance, to wear some sort of facial covering.
In "Face Coverings Help as Virus Can Spread by Talking, Fauci Says" (Bloomberg) April 3, 2020.
That piece continues:
Fauci stressed that the most important recommendation is still to keep six feet away from people, regardless of whether you’re wearing a face covering. And he said the face covering recommendation “should in no way ever take away from the availability of masks that are needed for the health-care providers.” The face covering recommendation is on top of the call to stay six feet away from people, “not as a substitute for it,” he said.
Via Wikipedia's Coronavirus Disease 2019 article, a reference to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine article "Rapid Expert Consultation on the Possibility of Bioaerosol Spread of SARS-CoV-2 for the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 1, 2020)". This is a letter -- that is, a credible account though. not formally reviewed research -- summarizing experience is several medical facilities directly treating confirmed, and often intubated COVID-19 patients. That is, close to a worst-case scenario:
A study of SARS-CoV-2 raises concerns about transmission via aerosols generated from droplet contaminated surfaces. Liu, et. al. collected 35 aerosol samples in two hospitals and public areas in Wuhan. From samples collected in patient care areas the highest concentration of virus was found in toilet facilities (19 copies m^3^), and in medical staff areas the highest concentrations were identified in personal protective equipment (PPE) removal rooms (18-42 copies m^3^). By comparison, in all but two crowded sites, the concentrations of virus found in public areas was below 3 copies m^3^. The authors conclude that a direct source of SARS-CoV-2 may be a virus-laden aerosol resuspended by the doffing of PPE, the cleaning of floors, or the movement of staff. It may be difficult to re-suspend particles of a respirable size. However, fomites could be transmitted to hands, mouth, nose or eyes without requiring direct respiration into the lungs.
(The paper is freely downloadable though an email address is requested but not verified. Any email-shaped string will suffice.)
Particle densities on tested surfaces in these facilities are relatively low -- if you're exposed. by this route, the inoculum, the amount of infectuous material received, is small. This is probably a low-risk exposure, especially for incidental contact. But the risk is measureable and non-zero. For those in constant or repeated exposure to such environments, e.g., public-facing positions, the risk is far greater than for those with occasional -- once a week or two, say -- exposures.
Upshots:
Clarifying a point: there's never been a question to my mind that masks are effective at reducing disease transmission, the question has been whether universal wearing has been recommended, for the general population, given intrinsic shortages of supply. The question has always been who to deploy masks to for greatest common population benefit. And the answer, for now, is "even less-effective masks, to more people, is better".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LsxVRnNGl5A&t=3m44s
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...Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., confirmed in an interview with WABE in Atlanta, a National Public Radio member station, on Monday that the agency was reviewing its guidelines on who should wear masks. Citing new data that shows high rates of transmission from people who are infected but show no symptoms, he said the guidance on mask wearing was “being critically re-reviewed, to see if there’s potential additional value for individuals that are infected or individuals that may be asymptomatically infected.”...
The balance remains between shortages, critical needs, and false sense of security. But views (mine included) are shifting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html
In settings where N95 respirators are so limited that routinely practiced standards of care for wearing N95 respirators and equivalent or higher level of protection respirators are no longer possible, and surgical masks are not available, as a last resort, it may be necessary for HCP to use masks that have never been evaluated or approved by NIOSH or homemade masks. It may be considered to use these masks for care of patients with COVID-19, tuberculosis, measles, and varicella. However, caution should be exercised when considering this option.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/respirators-strategy/crisis-alternate-strategies.html
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(I'm evaluating specific mask designs, will follow up.)
