A study conducted in China says wearing face masks at home greatly reduces a person’s risk of catching the coronavirus.
A study conducted in China says wearing face masks at home greatly reduces a person’s risk of catching the-- a major escalation from the most common advice on the cloth coverings, which is that they should be worn in public when social distancing can’t be practiced.
Most person-to-person transmission occurred within households, the study says. Wearing face masks in the same house was 79% effective at curbing transmission, but only before symptoms emerge. Wearing masks really wasn’t protective after the symptoms started. “This study confirms the highest risk of household transmission being prior to symptom onset, but that precautionary [non-pharmaceutical interventions], such as mask use, disinfection and social distancing in households can prevent COVID-19 transmission during the pandemic,” said a news release from BMJ Global health, the medical journal that published the study., the risk of passing the virus quadrupled, the study says.
But as the number of cases rose, the Trump administration performed an about-face. In early April, the administration urged Americans to start wearing masks when they couldn’t social distance, though President Trump said he wouldn’t wear one.
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