Can face masks offer protection from airborne sneeze and cough droplets in close-up, face-to-face human interactions?—A quantitative study

Day-to-day observations reveal numerous medical and social situations where maintaining physical distancing is either not feasible or not practiced during the time of a viral pandemic, such as, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). During these close-up, face-to-face interactions, a common belief...

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Published in:Physics of fluids (1994) 2020-12, Vol.32 (12), p.127112
Main Authors: Akhtar, Javed, Garcia, Abner Luna, Saenz, Leonardo, Kuravi, Sarada, Kota, Krishna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloth
Configurations
Coronaviruses
Cough
COVID-19
Disease control
Droplets
Flow visualization
Fluid dynamics
Leakage
Masks
Medical research
Particle image velocimetry
Physics
Quantitative analysis
Viral diseases
Viral infections
Viruses
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