{"id":127696,"date":"2021-09-15T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/homemade-face-masks-work-effectiveness-varies-depending-on-how-they-are-made"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:22:34","slug":"homemade-face-masks-work-effectiveness-varies-depending-on-how-they-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/homemade-face-masks-work-effectiveness-varies-depending-on-how-they-are-made","title":{"rendered":"Homemade face masks work; effectiveness varies depending on how they are made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/homemade-face-masks-work-effectiveness-varies-depending-on-how-they-are-made3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the spread of virus causing COVID-19 continues, experts recommended wearing homemade facemasks when surgical or N95 masks are not available to prevent the spread of the pandemic. While such makeshift masks are more economical and accessible in low-capita countries, the effectiveness of cloth masks has not been studied in depth.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Physics of Fluids<\/i>, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science studied the fate of a large-sized surrogate cough droplets at different velocities, corresponding from mild to severe, while using various locally procured fabrics as masks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results show cotton, towel-based fabrics were most effective among the considered fabrics and must be stitched together as multiple layers for making homemade facemasks,\u201d said author Saptarshi Basu. \u201cA three or more-layered homemade mask is recommended, since it can suppress aerosolization significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the spread of virus causing COVID-19 continues, experts recommended wearing homemade facemasks when surgical or N95 masks are not available to prevent the spread of the pandemic. While such makeshift masks are more economical and accessible in low-capita countries, the effectiveness of cloth masks has not been studied in depth. In Physics of Fluids, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}