What’s the Best Type of Mask?

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Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readOct 27, 2020

In a feature for Elemental, Robert Roy Britt details everything people should know about wearing and caring for face masks. Including answers to questions like, do I really need a mask outdoors? and what’s the best type of mask? The latter answer is below:

“The main thing is that people find a mask that they will wear,” [David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine] says. So find a size, fit, and design that suits you. But also pick one…that effectively blocks respiratory droplets from passing through when you…

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