Posted on 02/01/2021 9:32:23 AM PST by Red Badger
"If you add on another mask, you may actually make it tougher for the air to move through..."
An infectious disease expert who served on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board during the presidential transition says wearing two face masks as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 may actually do more harm than good.
Michael Osterholm said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that double masking could raise the chances of becoming infected with the virus.
“When we talk about double masking, remember what we’re really talking about is just trying to prevent the virus from being excreted by me into the air or me inhaling the virus from someone else in the air, and it’s both a function of face fit and face filtration,” Osterholm said.
Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said “think about your swim goggles. When’s the last time anybody leaked at the lenses? They leak at the fit.”
“So, what we’re concerned about is that many of these face cloth coverings do have already compromised fit or filtration capacity,” he said. “If you add on another mask, you may actually make it tougher for the air to move through the two-cloth area, and then at that point, it causes more air to actually leak around the sides, which actually enhances your ability to get infected.”
“I’m not saying that some couldn’t be used in a better way. But at the same time, there are many that actually, you may do more harm. Let me just say right now one thing that’s really, to me, very important is we see up to 25% of people who wear it under their nose. You know, that’s like fixing three of the five screen doors in your submarine. You know, what’s going on there? We’ve got to get people to start using these right. That would help right there tremendously,” Osterholm said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served on President Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force and is now President Biden’s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, said last month that wearing two masks is likely more effective than wearing one.
“If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on it; just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” Fauci told NBC News on Monday.
The New York Times said earlier this month that if one mask works, maybe two will be twice as nice.
“Football coaches do it. President-elects do it. Even science-savvy senators do it. As cases of the coronavirus continue to surge on a global scale, some of the nation’s most prominent people have begun to double up on masks — a move that researchers say is increasingly being backed up by data,” the paper wrote.
The Times cites Linsey Marr, an expert in virus transmission at Virginia Tech, who said “if you combine multiple layers, you start achieving pretty high efficiencies” of blocking viruses from exiting, and even entering, the nose or mouth.
Related: CNBC Touts TRIPLE-Masking For Best Protection Against COVID-19
Apparently not settled Science.
“I CAIN’T BREEVE!!!”
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Maybe triple masking will work?
I think they are now just trying to see how stupid the people are...
This is going well.
But the CDC just ordered double masking on planes, trains and busses
Should have masks. Made up with that saying on it, not to support Floyd who wasn’t murdered but rather died of drug overdose, but just to state the obvious fact that we a tally can’t breeve
I know, it’s like a sick game of Simon says
“When’s the last time anyone leaked at the lenses?”
My cousin David back in the 8th grade and he was suspended from school for a week.
Don't forget Fauci said we should be wearing goggles.
Seems like a divers mask and snorkel with a filter might be our best defense.
I think they are now just trying to see how stupid the people are...
They don’t know yet? The sheep will follow anything the gooberment says.
“That’s like fixing three of the five screen doors in your submarine”
Ummmm.....
I guess they were squeaking.
But look on the bright side. This is an opportunity ity to meet new people and make friends. When others pass out fro lack of oxygen, we can rush to help them and make new friends In the process. There wi.l be passed out people everywhere, so lits of opportunities to help others.
The Top Infectious Disease Expert in my life is my wife, a Public Health Nurse Supervisor. While the “top doctors” or “top disease experts” anointed by the MSM pontificate about masks, whine about not enough vaccines, and dream up of ways to screw over small business and the public, she has to work with mothers and babies that are addicts and battered, more and more people with health needs that are homeless and suicidal. Drug use, alcohol and suicides don’t matter to the powers that be. There are more and more people in her county facing deaths from despair, yet virtually all of her staff has been taken away for covid testing, contact tracing, or vaccine distribution. Her nurses brag about not seeing their families for almost a year. My wife’s job has entered the twilight zone.
Of course, my wife is the only non-Karen, non-SJW in her whole department and believes the common sense approach in Florida is the only way to move forward.
Sorry for the rant, but I felt I had to share to lay of the land from a Public Health viewpoint.
That doesn’t matter.
What matters is your compliance.
“I will not comply.”
No! Two layers is enough for protection.....
Duh! Three will just slip off...
Oh wait!....nevermind... you’re talking about masks......🙄
There is only one sure cure for prevention of infection. Stop breathing.
Is Donna Douglas under there?.....................
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