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Effectiveness of cloth masks depends on type of covering – Science Daily
Wearing a mask while out in public has become the recommended practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have now experimentally visualized the flow fields of coughs under various common mouth covering scenarios.
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask while out in public has become the recommended practice. However, many still question the effectiveness of this.To allay these doubts, Padmanabha Prasanna Simha, from the Indian Space Research Organisation, and Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, from the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, experimentally visualized the flow fields of coughs under various common mouth covering scenarios. They present their findings in the journa…
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