CDC Recommends Double-Masking for More Protection Against COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that everyone wear two face coverings — saying in a new study that doubling up can improve mask performance against COVID-19 by about 50 percent.
Wearing a cloth covering over a medical procedure mask or disposable mask significantly helps reduce exposure to the deadly bug, the CDC study found.
The agency said it studied two ways of improving the use of medical masks – “fitting a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask, and knotting the ear loops of a medical procedure mask and then tucking in and flattening the extra material close to the face.”
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