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On the other hand some researchers think cloth masks, specifically gaiter types, are worse than nothing. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083
by endisneigh 5y ago
On the other hand some researchers think cloth masks, specifically gaiter types, are worse than nothing.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083
> A bigger droplet scatters more light than a smaller droplet. This insight is important to interpret the result of the neck gaiter. The neck gaiter has a larger transmission (110%; see Fig. 3A) than the control trial. We attribute this increase to the neck gaiter dispersing larger droplets into several smaller droplets, therefore increasing the droplet count. The histogram of the binary diameter for the neck gaiter supports this theory (see fig. S5).
- fighterpilot 5y agoThat study shows that the large majority of the cloth masks tested were much better than nothing. See Fig 3.A. The only mask that was worse than nothing was the Neck Gaiter, but the difference was both clinically small as well as statistically insignificant.
- endisneigh 5y agoI'm talking about and referred to [gaiter type] masks specifically.