{"id":7392,"date":"2020-06-08T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:38:58","slug":"covid-19-and-non-traditional-mask-use-how-do-various-materials-compare-in-reducing-the-infection-risk-for-mask-wearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/08\/covid-19-and-non-traditional-mask-use-how-do-various-materials-compare-in-reducing-the-infection-risk-for-mask-wearers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Non-Traditional Mask Use: How Do Various Materials Compare in Reducing the Infection Risk for Mask Wearers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wilson et al. found that mask use reduced mean infection risk by 44-99% for short exposures and 24-94% for long exposures u<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sing a probabilistic model\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0exposure scenarios\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that represented\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a healthcare setting<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Of non-traditional materials<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that could be used for masks<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, vacuum cleaner bags were the most effective, and scarves were the least effective.\u00a0<\/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\">Wilson et al. (June 2, 2020). COVID-19 and Non-Traditional Mask Use: How Do Various Materials Compare in Reducing the Infection Risk for Mask Wearers? The Journal of Hospital Infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.05.036\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.05.036<\/span><\/a><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>Wilson et al. found that mask use reduced mean infection risk by 44-99% for short exposures and 24-94% for long exposures using a probabilistic model\u00a0with\u00a0exposure scenarios\u00a0that represented\u00a0a healthcare setting. Of non-traditional materials\u00a0that could be used for masks, vacuum cleaner bags were the most effective, and scarves were the least effective.\u00a0\u00a0 Wilson et al. (June 2,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/08\/covid-19-and-non-traditional-mask-use-how-do-various-materials-compare-in-reducing-the-infection-risk-for-mask-wearers\/\">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-7392","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\/7392","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=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}