{"id":8289,"date":"2020-05-24T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:29:47","slug":"wearing-a-facemask-is-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/wearing-a-facemask-is-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing a Facemask is a Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/wearing-face-mask-reduce-coronavirus-transmission-75-percent-study-shows\">Wearing a face mask can reduce coronavirus transmission by up to 75 percent<\/a>, study says<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/fightcovid19.hku.hk\/hku-hamster-research-shows-masks-effective-in-preventing-covid-19-transmission\/\">as close to a source as I could find<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It is super seeing research like that! The next question to our society is: how do we couple mask usage with another &#8220;multiplier&#8221; so that people can coexist inside a room and not transmit the virus at all?<br \/>\nThe case studies that I have seen demonstrate one person spreading the virus to up to 80% of the other people in a room in 3 hours. Reducing that transmission rate by 75% isn&#8217;t actually helpful on its own; in simplest terms, now that same 80% gets infected in 12 hours \u00f0\u0178\u2122\u0081.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article Wearing a face mask can reduce coronavirus transmission by up to 75 percent, study says (as close to a source as I could find) It is super seeing research like that! The next question to our society is: how do we couple mask usage with another &#8220;multiplier&#8221; so that people can coexist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}