{"id":104408,"date":"2020-03-28T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/would-everyone-wearing-face-masks-help-us-slow-the-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:03:47","slug":"would-everyone-wearing-face-masks-help-us-slow-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/would-everyone-wearing-face-masks-help-us-slow-the-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Would everyone wearing face masks help us slow the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/would-everyone-wearing-face-masks-help-us-slow-the-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite messages from some health officials to the contrary, it\u2019s likely that a mask can help protect a healthy wearer from infection, says Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong. Both surgical masks and the more protective N95 respirators have been shown to prevent various respiratory infections in health care workers; there\u2019s been some debate about which of the two is appropriate for different kinds of respiratory infection patient care. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense to imagine that \u2026 surgical masks are really important for health care workers but then not useful at all for the general public,\u201d Cowling says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some argue that masking everyone would slow the spread of COVID-19\u2014but the evidence is spotty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite messages from some health officials to the contrary, it\u2019s likely that a mask can help protect a healthy wearer from infection, says Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong. Both surgical masks and the more protective N95 respirators have been shown to prevent various respiratory infections in health care workers; there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}