Wear and distribute N95s if you can. Dou-ble mask if possible. We are dealing with a variant that spreads like wildfire,” tweeted Dr Arvinder Singh Soin, researcher, and group chairman, liver transplantation, Medanta, recently. And he isn’t the only health expert to have advised people to upgrade their masks to an N95 amid the rapidly proliferating omicron cases across the world. Multiple studies have also shown that the N95, KN95, or KF94 masks work best against COVID variants.Here’s what to keep in mind while upgrading your mask.
‘N95 AS EFFECTIVE AGAINST OMICRON AS OTHER VARIANTS’
“Omicron presents a good reason to upgrade your mask because this variant is even more transmissible than delta,” Linsey Marr, an aerosol expert at Virginia Tech,who studies airborne virus transmission, told a US publication recently.
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