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Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:39PM (#22435578)
"Well, Technically", 3-ply masks are fine enough to trap germ particles. They consist of a woven:non-woven:woven layer, the non-woven layer blocking nanometer particles. If you look at a n95 mask, it has the same woven:non-woven:woven layer structure.
The problem of 3-ply masks is that 10-25% of the air you inhale leak from the side/nose, bypassing the filter. n95 mask "fixes" the problem by tight(er) fitting, not by additional filtering layers.
Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California h...
on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:16PM (#22435296)
Indeed, overloaded medical system = high mortality.
To give a concrete example: recently there was a video report in Chinese state TV showing a heroic tag-team (doctors+nurses) doing 6 intubations per hour. Note: intubation is practically the last stage before you end up in a body bag.
That's a crazy number of intubations/hour for a single team. In such circumstances, you're guaranteed to get less-than-perfect recovery rate due to cross-infection.
Slow rate of infection is key to low mortality.