These filters can help ensure your homemade masks are effective against COVID-19.
? Unfortunately, while most mask-related questions are fairly cut and dry, this one’s answer is a bit more complicated.
Before you can even think about throwing a stitch, you have to first consider which fabric you’re going to use for your DIY face mask. According to U.S. Surgeon General , anyone can make a mask at home using items such as a hand towel, a bandanna, or an old T-shirt. However, these fabrications alone are really only effective for keeping germs — especially COVID-19 germs — from getting. In other words, they’re good at halting the spread of germs from a sick person to a healthy one. Without added layers of protection, though, they aren’t likely to actually protect healthy people from breathing dangerous germsThat’s where the importance of filters come in.
Yang Wang, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, recently released a report surrounding this exact topic to
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