Masks May Reduce Viral Dose, Some Experts Say

asp3

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I don't know if this is one of their free Covid articles or not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/...ck&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

The section I found most interesting and compelling was this:

Particularly compelling, Dr. Gandhi said, is the data from cruise ships, which pack big groups of people into close quarters. More than 80 percent of those infected aboard Japan’s Diamond Princess in February — before masking had become common practice — came down with symptoms, she noted. But on another vessel that left Argentina in March, and on which all passengers were issued surgical masks after someone onboard came down with a fever, the level of symptomatic cases was below 20 percent.
 

I saw the same article in today's Washington Post. It seems that even when people do get infected in spite of wearing masks, they tend to get much milder cases. So apparently, the masks do protect the wearer to some extent.
 
I saw the same article in today's Washington Post. It seems that even when people do get infected in spite of wearing masks, they tend to get much milder cases. So apparently, the masks do protect the wearer to some extent.
Yeah. When a pro-flu-shot doctor is confronted with "Doctor, if the flu shot works, why do so many people get the flu after getting a flu shot?" Their usual reply: "Uh...well....it doesn't always work, BUT if you do get the flu, you'll get over it quicker," or "It won't be as severe."
 


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