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With Vaccines, SNS No Longer Distributes Cloth Mask Layer Science News Through the Florida Press Association
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Masks w layers that "charge up" cotton
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EU Public Mask Standards
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Mask-Mandate States Flat while FL Soared July 2020
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Hear and see how invisible droplets emit during speech. Researchers used laser technology to light up the spray of otherwise unseen particles that become "aerosolized"during speech. Don't have time? The left video is short, or go to 01:35 in the longer video on the right to see the magnified spray.
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WHO CITES FRENCH MASK STANDARDS
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CDC Recommendations Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Masks
Learn how face masks slow the spread.
QUOTE OF PRIOR WEEKS
Asked to help explain the status of persons who feel recovered, but still test positive, Dr. Fauci explained that the virus replicates in you, but the test tells if the virus is there, not if it is still replicating. The body may be suppressing replication, but still be infected with viral particles called nucleotides. The body must clear that.
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"If we had 60% of the population wearing masks that were 60% effective--you could effectively end the epidemic based on some modeling that has been done," says Gottlieb. "People don't wear masks appropriately--not everyone has high quality masks. There is more supply in the market, so people can go out and try to get higher quality masks right now."
--Former FDA Commissioner, Stott Gottlieb, CNBC SPECIAL Q&A, June 17
FACE MASK SAFETY
Chiffon, Poly, and Spandex Charge Up Filtration of Cotton Used in Face Masks
ANY GAP IN YOUR FACE MASK LOWERS
FILTRATION
EFFICIENCY BY UP TO 50 PERCENT, A NEW STUDY SHOWED. See video SHOWing
DARtS and"gaskets" to CLOSE THE gaps here.
SHARP SCIENCE
The Virus Up Close: How Scientists Visualize Microscopic Enemies.
Visual artist Austin Athman colorizes a SARS-CoV-2 image at NIH-NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Lab.
You might have seen beautifully colored images of magnified viruses and bacteria in news stories and on the covers of scientific journals – particularly the SARS-CoV-2 images (the virus that causes COVID-19) appearing everywhere. While the
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Image of Novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, magnified 30,000 to 90,000 times their actual size, emerging from the surface of cells (gray) cultured in the lab, after duplication.
This scanning electron microscope image shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (orange)—also known as 2019-nCoV—the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (gray) cultured in the lab.
Photo Credit: NIH
INFECTED CELL
“Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"
Cells Die When Heavily Infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of dying (apoptotic) cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Photo Credit: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility, MD.
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EMERGING FROM CULTURED CELL. This scanning electron microscope image shows novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH
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