{"id":106153,"date":"2020-04-28T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-have-figured-out-the-best-materials-to-use-if-youre-making-a-mask-at-home"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:02:52","slug":"scientists-have-figured-out-the-best-materials-to-use-if-youre-making-a-mask-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-have-figured-out-the-best-materials-to-use-if-youre-making-a-mask-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Figured Out The Best Materials to Use if You\u2019re Making a Mask at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-figured-out-the-best-materials-to-use-if-youre-making-a-mask-at-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Depending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-is-why-advice-on-whether-you-should-wear-a-mask-is-just-so-confusing\">who you ask<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/medical-expert-sorts-through-the-confusing-pros-and-cons-of-wearing-masks\">where you are<\/a>, wearing a mask can be an important part of the strategy to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>With the CDC recommending surgical and N95 masks should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/topics\/hcwcontrols\/recommendedguidanceextuse.html\">kept for medical personnel on the front line<\/a>, if you do want or need a mask, you should be purchasing or making a cloth one.<\/p>\n<p>But when looking at cloth masks, which materials work best for keeping your germs in and other people\u2019s germs out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on who you ask and where you are, wearing a mask can be an important part of the strategy to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2. With the CDC recommending surgical and N95 masks should be kept for medical personnel on the front line, if you do want or need a mask, you should be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}