The Royal Society (National Academy of science in the UK) has published a Report on the scientific evidence for public wearing of face masks.
It concludes: “This evidence supports the conclusion that more widespread risk-based face mask adoption can help to control the Covid-19 epidemic by reducing the shedding of droplets into the environment from asymptomatic individuals. This is also consistent with the experiences of countries that have adopted this strategy.”
This post is part of a VOX series on the Coronavirus pandemic:
Approaching the hour of darkness
Nipping an epidemic in the bud
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