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Explicating gender disparity in wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background The available evidence suggests that women were more likely to wear face masks as a precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few studies have explicated this gender disparity in wearing face masks. This study investigates associations
Kim Hoe Looi
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Efficacy of Generalized Face Masking Mandates
Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2021 This commentary discusses if targeted uses of face masks may provide better results than generalized face masks mandates to limit the spread of Covid-19.
Alberto Boretti
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British and Irish newspapers implicitly support single-use masks over reusable face coverings
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 IntroductionThe environmental impact of waste caused by single-use masks or face coverings is an under-considered effect associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anaïs Augé +3 more
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Enhanced protection face masks do not adversely impact thermophysiological comfort.
PLoS ONE, 2022 The World Health Organization has advocated mandatory face mask usage to combat the spread of COVID-19, with multilayer masks recommended for enhanced protection.
Farzan Gholamreza +3 more
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Speech air flow with and without face masks
Scientific Reports, 2022 Face masks slow exhaled air flow and sequester exhaled particles. There are many types of face masks on the market today, each having widely varying fits, filtering, and air redirection characteristics.
Donald Derrick +4 more
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Children, 2022 In the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, wearing a face mask is mandatory again during school lessons. There are no controlled studies in children to date indicating an effect on cognitive performance from wearing face masks. In a randomized controlled trial,
Anne Schlegtendal +6 more
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Cognitive Research, 2021 Identifying speech requires that listeners make rapid use of fine-grained acoustic cues—a process that is facilitated by being able to see the talker’s face.
Violet A. Brown +2 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914 To avoid the frosting of eye-glasses by the breath, and to get the upper edge of the mask out of the way of the vision, we have devised the following little improvement: The mask is made after any desired fashion. Then a piece of lead-foil ½ inch wide and about 4% inches long is slipped into the hem in the upper edge of the mask.
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Effects of face masks on the appearance of emotional expressions and invariant characteristics
Open Psychology, 2021 Faces convey a lot of information about a person. However, the usage of face masks occludes important parts of the face. There is already information that face masks alter the processing of variable characteristics such as emotional expressions and the ...
Lau Wee Kiat, Huckauf Anke
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Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2020 Put aside the exasperating debate about whether individuals should wear a face mask to protect themselves and others against the spread of the COVID-19 virus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). Wearing a face mask has become a cause célèbre, with implications of safety for oneself and others, trust in science, and being in defiance of ...
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