{"id":6993,"date":"2020-05-20T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:46:53","slug":"medical-mask-versus-cotton-mask-for-preventing-respiratory-droplet-transmission-in-micro-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/medical-mask-versus-cotton-mask-for-preventing-respiratory-droplet-transmission-in-micro-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Mask versus Cotton Mask for Preventing Respiratory Droplet Transmission in\u00a0Micro Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ho et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared performance of medical masks and cotton masks in suppressing respiratory droplet<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from a coughing infectious person.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">articles with size ranging 20-1000 nm (NC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.02-1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">measured\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for each participant while they were in a bedroom and a car wearing a medical mask and 100% cotton mask.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">here were no significant differences in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.02-1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between participants with medical masks and cotton masks in either environment, suggesting that cotton masks\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0effective substitute for medical masks in curbing transmission in public.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ho et al. (May 2020). Medical Mask versus Cotton Mask for Preventing Respiratory Droplet Transmission in\u00a0Micro Environments. Science of the Total Environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139510\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.139510<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho et al.\u00a0compared performance of medical masks and cotton masks in suppressing respiratory droplets\u00a0from a coughing infectious person.\u00a0Particles with size ranging 20-1000 nm (NC0.02-1) were\u00a0measured\u00a0for each participant while they were in a bedroom and a car wearing a medical mask and 100% cotton mask.\u00a0There were no significant differences in\u00a0NC0.02-1\u00a0between participants with medical masks and cotton&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/medical-mask-versus-cotton-mask-for-preventing-respiratory-droplet-transmission-in-micro-environments\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}