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Can wearing a face mask help ‘generate immunity’ from COVID-19? – Yahoo News Canada

A new New England Journal of Medicine commentary theorizes that universal face mask use could possibly generate some immunity against the virus.

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Health experts and organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been urging people to wear face masks for months to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. And now a new commentary published in the New England Journal of Medicine theorizes that population-wide face mask use may have additional benefits namely, by making you less ill if you get COVID-19 and allowing a very small amount of the virus to get through and possibly trigger protective immunity against t…

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