As the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread, some experts say it's past time to reconsider your face mask options -- especially if you're still wearing the cloth variety.
"Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron," said CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, on CNN Newsroom Tuesday. "This is what scientists and public health officials have been saying for months, many months, in fact," Wen added in a separate phone interview.
In studies of various face masks, cloth masks with multiple layers and higher thread counts"have demonstrated superior performance compared to single layers of cloth with lower thread counts," but are still less effective than medical-grade masks, according to the CDC. Wearing a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask, as Wen suggested, can better protect you and others by improving fit and therefore filtration capacity, the CDC says.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
bit of difrent topic but still covid related....January 1, No Surprise Bill health law effective. ?Any1 needn hospitaliza. ever gone thru hospital's list of charges bfore hospitaliz. and nerly correctly calculated cost but what about complications unseen?
My friends, at least 18 at work never wore them. A dozen got covid, a dozen recovered with no special treatments or drugs. Yes, many died. Sadly. But you can't stop the world or we all perish
either vaccine or masks..YOU CANT HAVE THE CAKE AND EAT IT
Oh please. The whole mask thing is just a band-aide on the issue. Didn’t CNN and Fauci say omicron is less severe than the other variants… pretty soon we’ll be wearing these masks… the hysteria is ridiculous, I’ll continue to live my life, not in fear… I did my part I got 3 💉
I’m not wearing. I quit. 3 vaxxed and moving on.
I am boosted, so if I spread it to people who don’t get vaxxed. Oh well, I did my part. If I have to be around children or people at risk, I mask up. But, around the GP, nope. I support Darwin 1000% I’m just doing my part to help them get “natural immunities.”
If this truly made a difference, this would have been pushed two years ago when Covid began to spread. Cloth masks sold are private profit. N95 profits go to big pharma. Just a moneymaker ad right here.
Don that bacteria sponge
How about not hiring pedophiles?
Gheesh. Follow the $$$ every time
Good information. Now let's see if we can get people to actually wear the mask over their nose!
Yall still wear masks?
Yes, it is time to reconsider mask options. For the vaccinated, the most rational thing is to ditch them entirely. , do you hear yourself? You are seriously asking everyone to wear PPE. That doesn’t make sense.
How about I keep wearing no masks? 😂
I do not wear masks or take vaccines. I drink herbal teas that are bitter to protect myself.
CNN fake news no one blives nomore
Weird, I don't want a new mask, that headline makes me want to buy guns, lots and lots of guns.
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I'm not going to live in fear. I'm not a slave to death nor am I a slave to any of you. Your fear has made masks, vaccines, government, and pharmaceutical companies your masters has if they could actually control if you see another light of day.
Cold like/Running nose symptoms and we are going insane as a country! Let’s all sit down and think about that!!!!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄
It will be over in three weeks but the left wing media is only working for the dnc which loves the power
You guys are horrible, stop spreading fear.
Masks don’t work.
Fake News!!
Remember my true story
Boring now. Every one go rush to get your booster as it saves your life .. oh wait the 2 vax and booster you already have doesn’t cover this variant. 🤡 Scaremongering AGAIN about what is no more than a common cold. Wonder what next will take this ones place ?
It's the only way, the only hope:
The herd immunity variant. Local hospitals here in NY are empty. Time to END THE MADNESS and quit making the flu out to be a pandemic
Go out of business already.
Maybe we should realize groups are not required. Bigger is not always better, live and let live for tomorrow. As a society we have become frightened to be alone.
CNN spending fear and panic to people stupid enough to list to their BS. A virus strain that has killed only one person so far, and they sound the doomsday alarm.
I pray for my children also. Breaking up our constitution is not the answer.
Blocking my communications with the defense dept as a former wife of a former marine. Hilary has one hell of a agenda.
And it goes through cloth. Sally Camilla wants to cover that my son died on 2011! Of pneumonia. He is. Not nick nor is Brandon under 18. God gives us freewill. I will decided what I am or do. God bless.
Or, don’t wear one at all. How’re they working out for New York? And, even with only allowing vaccinated people into restaurants, numbers are at their highest. If people would just accept this is an endemic and quit freaking out, we could all go back to normal.
I figure that if I wear one, a Karen is going to yell at me for wearing one and being a 'sheep'. If I don't, a differerent Karen is going to yell at me for not wearing it and cause a scene. Now, I have to think about whether my mask is the right one. I'm fucking staying inside.
Or, in the case of the population of Sweden, start wearing them to begin with.
Shut uppppp
Biden has had a year to distribute therapeutics. His admin is blocking multiple therapeutics including ones that prevent over 90% of hospitalizations & deaths. BIDEN is a DISASTER. 500M tests are a distraction & to be used to panic Americans & falsely justify lockdowns & spending
Medicine Is a SCAM, that event we have for the past few years is a SCAM
MEDICINE/MEDICATION.... ITS A SCAM THEY CAME FROM ANIMAL AND PLANT DEFENSE MECHANISMS. BODY HEAL ON THEY OWN BUT WE GOT MICROELECTRODES AND MICROTECHNOLOGY IN US THROUGH VACCINE. THE VAX CREATES DAMAGES AND MORE SCAM WITH PRODUCTS THAT DOESNT WORK OR DAMAGE MORE
Why does your company employ child preditors
If you are vaxxed, you are an idiot if you wear a mask. Covid will be next year. It will be here in 10 years, but have fun wearing your mask.
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Yes it's highly contagious, 80% milder .. Rates here at gone up 4 fold here.. Hospitalizations have remained constant . You should have been giving this advice ages ago when delta was around🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ Why now! has this mutation not given the desired effect of scaring everyone 🤷♂️🤷♂️
I know it may be hard to do but just stay away (farther than 6 feet) from Republicans (aka people who aren’t wearing a mask).
It's mutating milder now folks..calm down..
Just stop
What a joke…..
No thank you! I'll let my natural immunity fight it.
Watch this !!!
Y’all are still wearing masks 🤣🤣
If you believe anything CNN say o got a bridge you can buy
Luckily omicron doesn’t make you sick
Just fuck off that facemask bullshit, it doesn't work. I stopped using that enviorement hazzardous garbage. Omikron is a lie. Dont belueve that coronashit anymore. Its a facade to make us scared and make us hostage of the governments.
How about this….dont wear one at all
Two years later ... and your best defense ... a mask?
You mean they're finally admitting the rag people wear over their mouth does nothing?
Biden has been a complete and utterly failure surpasses Jimmy Carter by a landslide we need a leader like Donald J Trump who led America to greatness rather than doomed 👎👎👎👎
Why are we even wearing these little surgical Masks?
Oh you mean something like this probably. It's a cold!!!!!
Can someone please explain to me how I can tell if my KN95’s are counterfeit? This article was so confusing.
XOXO
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I’m over this covid mess and living in fear. I’m going outside
just go away.
Enough with the fear mongering!!! The science proves omicron isn’t dangerous you fools !! Wake up people !!
What type do I wear to stop a virus particle that’s .29 microns and dominated by airflow?
So.....we're finally admitting that the masks people have been wearing have always been completely useless?
Here we go
Wait a darn minute! You mean wearing a cheap cloth or paper mask doesn’t work?! What?!?!?!! I’m absolutely shocked. This is so shocking. This is a total surprise. 🙄
Shouldn’t the government send all of us one mask with our one COVID detection kit (well, once the website is finished in a month). I shouldn’t have to buy my own crappy mask. Right?
Gonna keep not wearing my mask until guarded security at entrances stop me
Yep. I reconsidered and don’t wear any mask at all. Omicron has a survival rate of 99.9999%. More people die of the measles than omicron. At least the mask users facilitate the identification of the gullible now.
I want to get it. That would be fun!
Give it a rest with the fear-mongering for just one day. Cloth masks have been just fine. Or, we can ignore the 100s of 1000s of maskless football fans from this season who haven't been linked to a single outbreak.
Bahahaha get fucked
Shut up about non stop Covid!!
People in fear are easily controlled
2/ If infected, it is often mild even if the infection is done a second time later. I don't do the mask when I walk. I do not inoculate. If you face to face, it is about thinking about the other party. It is the responsibility of the individual to make their own choices.
If you get infected, it should not be a serious condition, something that leads to death. There are many people who are infected, have no fever, and do not change their physical condition. 1/
More biden hoax
You wanna play the blame game Ok Let's play NIH = gain of function China = stuck it to the world Fauci = Noble Lies Biden = Lied CDC = Flip Flopping FDA = It them 2 years to OK an alternative treatment? Hosea 10:2
close schools again please.
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You should throw away the masks and get it already. You are only delaying the inevitable.
STFU and stop spreading fear you criminal Morons
If only most companies would make quality masks. Hate wasting my money on misleading defective masks.
I have never stopped wearing a mask tho!!!
No. The vaccines don’t work, the masks don’t work, lockdowns don’t work. Just accept that we are all gonna get it and some of us will die.
C N N altamente mentirosos y por suerte nada contagiosos. Payasooooos con estás notas ridículas 💩 Ojalá dejen de existir como medios de información, ya q han sido Cómplices del HOLOCAUSTO q los gobiernos y laboratorios llevaron a cabo.
Deceptively amplifying health content with the intent to incite unwarranted fear is a form of terroristic propaganda.
Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron,' said CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen Then why are we making kids wear them in school?
It is time to throw them all in the trash and move on
Thousands of children's died in the initial test of the polio vaccine, today we are sort of polio free, so it's OK thousands of us die now with covid vaccine test so the future generations can be free of covid. Take 1 for the team!!!
It’s been long time to re-evaluate …masks are ineffective. Always have been ineffective (10-12% efficiency) according to Johns Hopkins for paper and cloth masks and that’s if worn and handleded correct which NO ONE DOES). Social distancing is 100% effective.
Also this will help
Masks don’t work and are ridiculous
S Africa has confirmed the omicron as mild & cold like. Their cases plateaued quickly. 80% less risk of hospitalization & 70% less risk of death. USA data confirms it’s mild. Omicron is nature’s vaccine. The Marxists are pushing over-reactions. Learn to live with the virus, .
We’re done with masks
Turn off the media they are lying to you.
Yeah, you don't want to get a cold
Or just get it and be further immunized
CNN = Fear Porn
Całkiem logiczne
Be careful out there. The common cold is coming for you.
F*$k u left wingers.
But u said earlier cloth masks are the best?
I've never worn a cloth mask...I'm either n95 or the surgical ones...
Ummm…This is not NEWS!!!! I knew not to wear cloth on my face two years ago!! So stupid.
I don't even wear one anymore so it doesn't even matter.
Decades of studies said masks didn't work. You people doubled down on it and threw settled science out the window because Trump wouldn't put a worthless piece of cloth on his face for you. At least it'll be entertaining watching your covid cultists turn on cloth mask wearers.
I'm double masking again. I wear a cloth mask over my N95.
How about wearing astronauts clothes and consider planet earth as a no more life supporting planet Would be much safer
My option is I refuse to wear one
Bruh
Stop fear mongering
You mean the one 80% less lethality, so it's 80% less of 1%, meaning is only 0.012 lethal? Why aren't you better reporting on the monster producer that worked for you?
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