A joint study by the CDC and NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) shows neck gaiters/buffs at or above cloth and medical mask efficacy

A joint study by the CDC and NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) shows neck gaiters/buffs at or above cloth and medical mask efficacy for expelled droplets: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20207241v3.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20207241v... Another study from the University of Georgia showed similar results: https://research.uga.edu/docs/units/communications/UGAMaskGaiterStudySept2020.pdf https://research.uga.edu/docs/units/communications/UGAMaskGa... A Q&A with the researcher state the following: "The results that gaiters can provide a similar level of protection as CDC-recommended masks was consistent with our expectations. However, we were somewhat surprised to see the multi-layer gaiters provided by MISSION performed so much better than the masks we tested (96% reduction in respiratory droplets vs. 81%)." https://research.uga.edu/docs/units/communications/GaiterstudyQASurajSharma.pdf https://research.uga.edu/docs/units/communications/Gaiterstu... There's a false narrative on gaiters/buffs due to research in August related to lost cost technology for testing masks, developed by Duke researchers, that has been misinterpreted by the media. Here's one of those Duke researchers: “It was a development of a simple technique. It was not a systematic study of masks,” Fischer said. “The interpretation was that all neck gaiters suck. That is not what we said.” https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/08/duke-university-researchers-dispute-common-interpretation-mask-study-covid https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/08/duke-universit...