Studies on Masks

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WHO has updated its guidelines on mask wearing in community settings, COVID-19 treatments, and clinical management. This is part of a continuous process of reviewing such materials, working with guideline development groups composed of independent, international experts who consider the latest available evidence and the changing epidemiology.

After exposure to someone with SARS-CoV-2 infection, an uninfected person’s risk of infection is cut in half if both people wore masks, researchers reported in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others, enabling a unique comparison.

In one study, stricter mask policies reduced school infections by more than 70 percent during the delta wave.

Today, CDC released three studies in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that highlight the importance of using layered prevention strategies including universal masking to stop the spread and minimize disruptions to school operations for safe in-person education.

Researchers looked at what happened in Massachusetts schools when they lifted mask mandates. It resulted in 29.4 percent more cases in the 15 weeks after the decision.

The study is the first randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of face masks at reducing COVID-19 in a real-world setting.

This cohort study compares the risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 among health care workers by mask preference and level of patient exposure.

From Japan to Thailand, face coverings remain near-universal in public, and countries are keeping mandates.

In some parts of Asia, surgical masks became commonplace during SARS epidemic of 2002-2003.

People from Japan into Southeast Asia cover their mouths to deflect exhaust, pollution and cold air, Some are hiding their faces

In Mexico City, the federal government has never issued a mask mandate. Even so, masks seem to have become a habit.

The attitudinal differences in public mask use call for targeted strategies to support mask wearing for different ethnocultural groups, which may be achieved partially through enhancing interethnic understanding on the diversified use of and opinions about masks. The findings suggest that favorable social norms, along with evidence-based information campaigns involving personal app...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Keep that mask on: will Germans become more like East Asians?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, face masks became widely used and sometimes mandatory anti-infection devices across the world. While anti-mask protests emerged in several Western countries, nearly un...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan was known for its common practice of wearing masks. How did this practice establish itself among the Japanese people? Let's take a look at the history of and background to masks in Japan.

In Japan, it's sometimes said that the eyes speak as much as the mouth. Perhaps the proverbial phrase captures the essence of the nation’s affinity for fac

While wearing a mask in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak is second nature to people in parts of Asia, health experts in the West suggest otherwise

If caregivers are wearing masks, does that harm kids’ language development? No. There is no evidence of this. And we know even visually impaired children develop speech and language at the same rate as their peers.— American Academy of Pediatrics (@AmerAcadPeds) August 26, 2022

A team of psychology researchers observed that young children produce the same amount of language whether or not they are wearing masks. Another finding showed that kids produce more complex speech sounds while wearing masks than without them.

Social media posts claim that mask use impairs children's speech development. But experts say that while more research is needed on the topic, preliminary data does not support this conclusion.