Wearing a mask is essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will help prevent both you and others from getting COVID-19. This is more important than ever with new, more easily transmitted variants of COVID-19 on the rise. CDPH maintains updated Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings in California and provides Tips and […]
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, most commonly spreads from person to person through respiratory droplets. These droplets travel through the air when people cough, sneeze, or talk. Studies show that masks reduce the release of droplets when worn over the nose and mouth. While masks can prevent individuals from […]
The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have sorted us into three types based on our attitudes toward masking: Call them nervous maskers, never-maskers and uncertain maskers. The first feel guilty or nervous about unmasking, so they tend to default to wearing masks; the second feel angry and resentful about being told […]
Despite concerns of a spreading delta variant of the coronavirus, the CDC has no plans to walk back its guidance that fully vaccinated people can skip the mask when indoors. In May, the CDC said that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to wear masks or […]
Summary What is already known about this topic? Ventilation systems can be supplemented with portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to reduce the number of airborne infectious particles. What is added by this report? A simulated infected meeting participant who was exhaling aerosols was placed in a room with […]
