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Figuring Out Face Masks - The New Journal and Guide

By Glenn Ellis

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“What kind of face mask should I wear to protect myself from getting COVID-19?”

There is no longer any debate to be had on whether, or not, face masks offer us protection from the COVID-19 virus (by sensible people, anyway). The WHO, the CDC, and the NIH are all in agreement, and the global data on the transmission and resurgent spikes in infection rates after “re-openings” all bear the stark reality of our collective foreseeable future: wearing face masks.

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