Masks protect you from infection and protect others from getting sick. But authorities are leaving it up to individuals to decide if they want to wear masks on the bus or train. Here’s how to decide.
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Low-wage workers are less likely than high-wage workers to have access to things like masks, hand sanitizer and training on how to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
Ford is assembling ventilators, LVMH is making hand sanitizer, and Chanel is making masks. Here’s why these and dozens of other companies are doing it.
Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn’t. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.
The evidence on whether wearing masks and gloves in the community will actually protect against coronavirus isn’t strong. But if you’re going to take these precautions, you might as well do it right.
Shortages of face masks may grow worse as state-wide lockdowns end. An economist suggests price controls.
Without massive change, the US health care system will continue to be disorganized and inefficient.
The CDC is reconsidering its policy about the widespread public’s use of masks, as is the World Health Organization. Here are the facts about when it’s appropriate to wear a mask – and what kind.
With smoke haze this week at its most hazardous level yet, people on Australia’s east coast have been taking precautions to protect their health. But some methods are more effective than others.
Why did a hacktivist collective like Anonymous repurpose the image of Guy Fawkes for its ubiquitous masks? A scholar looks at how a 17th-century English villain became the face of resistance.
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Physician, McMaster University
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Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
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Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Senior lecturer and Health Economist, School of Economics and Finance, Wits University, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, School of the Environment, University of Windsor
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
