US CDC says, ‘Masks not mandatory for fully vaccinated people’
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Both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that children over the age of 2 must wear a mask inside the school.
Dr Anne Liu of Stanford Children’s Health suggested that the best kind of mask for your kid is, “a mask that they can keep on.”
She also ranked the masks according to their effectiveness:
1: N95/KN95 mask OR a cloth and surgical mask together
2: Single surgical mask
3: Single cloth mask
However, Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer at Virginia Tech, tested face masks in her lab and the result showed that N95s are not made to fit kids.
She said in her report, “N95s do not come in kid sizes, so I do not recommend N95s for kids.”
Marr recommended parents that they need to consider the attributes masks in this order of priority:
Comfort
“If your kid won’t wear it, it’s not helping at all,” she said.
Fit
“Leaks around the sides are like having a hole in your mask and aerosols carrying the virus can get right through,” Marr said.
Filtration
How well the mask blocks small particles.
The World Health Organization says children under the age of five do not normally need to wear a mask.
WHO and UNICEF advise that the decision to use masks for children aged 6-11 should be based on the following factors:
WHO and UNICEF advise that children aged 12 and over should wear a mask under the same conditions as adults, in particular when they cannot guarantee at least a 1-metre distance from others and there is widespread transmission in the area.
Here are the basics of how to wear a mask:
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