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This video demonstrates how well fit-tested respirators work as source control vs no masks vs loose fitting medical masks.

No complicated modelling required.

We can achieve higher levels of risk reduction by having our healthcare workers wear these when looking after vulnerable patients, particularly at times where staff are at higher risk of infection (recently symptomatic, close contact of someone unwell at home, or high community prevalence)

Screenshots in the next post.

#N95 #MasksWork

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/987/406/675/885/718/original/f64299d19056ac92.mp4

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Dr Pieter Peach 2y ago

Screenshots here.

As an anaesthetist I spend a good amount of time talking, in close proximity, to vulnerable patients while having young children at home coughing and unwell.

I owe it to my patients not to pass on whatever is circulating at home to them.

I've been doing it daily for 3 years and can do it as needed for the remainder of my career.

#n95 #MasksWork

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Sylvia Fuller 2y ago

nostr:npub1ntq8qqr07h3znwxcx7nttsgdgtzcheh26w2qex3npeysep6w06ls69rg38 Thank you! My 12yo recently had to be sedated to have his dislocated elbow treated - it stressful to first have to ask that people treating him mask and then deal with the fact that they were wearing baggy blue medical masks. His dad is a transplant recipient, so bringing COVID home could be disastrous.