Simple Mask Safety Test

We’re sheltered in place. That’s a great thing. But we still need to go out occasionally for the essentials that can’t be delivered to our door. That means we need to start wearing masks as one strategy to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Since masks are in high demand, people are getting creative and making their own masks at home. But not all masks are created equal. Take Dr. Greene’s simple mask safety test to determine if your mask is effective or not. Simple Mask Safety Test Video Transcript Dr. Greene: [00:00:00] Hi. I am Dr. Alan Greene and I want to talk to you for a moment about homemade masks because not all homemade masks are created equal. They can be great, but some of them are far more effective than others. First, there are all kinds of different fabrics; there’s t-shirts, there’s bandanas and scarves and vacuum cleaner bags, and there’s a number of layers of fabric there are, and I want to give you a simple, powerful way to tell if your mask is doing the job you want. [00:00:27] So, let me back up just a second and tell you how this whole thing works. If you inhale a Coronavirus particles, then they get into the cells in the lining of your lungs and start to reproduce and reproduce more and more and more viruses, increasing exponentially within 12 hours. So that within three days, well before you often have symptoms of any kind at all, every breath you exhale has millions of virus particles in it. And they travel pr...
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