Similarly, there's at least one study out of China related to this recent outbreak showing the infection rate of the front line staff in hospitals (who were giv

Similarly, there's at least one study out of China related to this recent outbreak showing the infection rate of the front line staff in hospitals (who were given N95 respirators) as zero, while the infection rate among other departments (radiology, etc) which were not wearing masks as much higher. That despite them calculating the front line staff having ~700% more exposure to the virus. I know we want to study and confirm everything, but it seems like a real no-brainer that wearing a mask that filters droplets would reduce your disk of infection from an airborne virus generally spread via droplets. And we're not talking about this in a hospital context, simply as harm reduction. As long as respirators are not an option for most of the general public due to supply issues, etc, then anything which reduces the infection rate is /better than nothing/, even if it isn't perfect.