Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

Re:Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid prote... by kleiba on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#29909417)

I visited British Columbia a few weeks ago, coming from Europe, and was almost shocked to see that inside stores, etc., some people _still_ don't wear any masks, others wear them just covering their mouth but not nose (which I also count as "not wearing a mask"), and most people that do wear masks (properly) use simple cloth masks.

Over here in central Europe, FFP2/N95 masks have been mandatory in such settings for a long, long time now.

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Re:Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid prote... by rsanek on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:04PM (#29909509)

Interesting that Europe as a whole has fared worse across basically the whole pandemic vs. Canada: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

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Re:Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid prote... by kleiba on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @02:43PM (#29911823)

Canada reached a very high percentage of vaccination across the whole population, and rather quickly compared to other nations.

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