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Neck fleeces may be worse for coronavirus protection, study says - Business Insider - Business Insider
Aug 09, 2020 57 secs

They tested 14 different types of masks, including surgical, N95, cotton, and polypropylene masks, as well as neck fleeces and bandanas to include a combination of alternative homemade masks and ones more traditionally used as protective equipment.

In comparison to the "control trial" of not wearing masks, most of the options reduced the number of respiratory droplets transmitted, adding to the body of research that shows masks are important to limit the spread of coronavirus?

The neck fleece and bandanas, however, marked high counts of respiratory droplets, showing that these alternative face coverings offer little protection, according to the study.

In fact, neck fleece increased the number of respiratory droplets by creating a number of smaller droplets — resulting in more droplets than not wearing masks at all

The study stated that since smaller droplets stay in the air longer than larger droplets, neck fleece may actually be "counterproductive."

"We were extremely surprised to find that the number of particles measured with the fleece actually exceeded the number of particles measured without wearing any mask," Martin Fischer, one of the study's authors, told CNN

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