return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 days agoFace masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO advisedwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down13cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoMakes sense. Doctors and nurses use face masks to protect the patient, not themselves. Respirators then again are used to protect the person wearing it from airborne particles. So in other words: masks do what they’re intented for.
Makes sense. Doctors and nurses use face masks to protect the patient, not themselves. Respirators then again are used to protect the person wearing it from airborne particles. So in other words: masks do what they’re intented for.