{"id":1396,"date":"2020-10-07T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T23:01:34","slug":"efficacy-of-face-masks-neck-gaiters-and-face-shields-for-reducing-the-expulsion-of-simulated-cough-generated-aerosols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/07\/efficacy-of-face-masks-neck-gaiters-and-face-shields-for-reducing-the-expulsion-of-simulated-cough-generated-aerosols\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficacy of Face Masks Neck Gaiters and Face Shields for Reducing the Expulsion of Simulated Cough-Generated Aerosols"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Face coverings were found to be more effective than face shields at blocking the small aerosol particles propelled by a cough aerosol simulator. The efficacy of blocking aerosols was 99% with an N95 respirator, 59% with a procedure mask, 51% with a 3-ply cloth face mask, 47% with a polyester neck gaiter and 2% with a face shield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lindsley et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Efficacy of Face Masks Neck Gaiters and Face Shields for Reducing the Expulsion of Simulated Cough-Generated Aerosols. Pre-print downloaded Oct 7 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.05.20207241\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.05.20207241<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Face coverings were found to be more effective than face shields at blocking the small aerosol particles propelled by a cough aerosol simulator. The efficacy of blocking aerosols was 99% with an N95 respirator, 59% with a procedure mask, 51% with a 3-ply cloth face mask, 47% with a polyester neck gaiter&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/07\/efficacy-of-face-masks-neck-gaiters-and-face-shields-for-reducing-the-expulsion-of-simulated-cough-generated-aerosols\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}