>13 min podcast Wearing A Mask Could Be Even More Important Than We Thought : NPR One
People wearing face coverings will take in fewer coronavirus particles, evidence suggests, making disease less severe.
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“as cases continue to rise across the country, experts are pointing to an array of evidence suggesting that masks also protect the people wearing them, lessening the severity of symptoms, or in some instances, staving off infection entirely.
“two researchers formally noted that mice exposed to larger quantities of germs were more likely to die. More recently, scientists have gone as far as to puff different amounts of a flu virus up the noses of human volunteers. The more virus in this nasal plume, they found, the likelier the participants were to get infected and experience symptoms.
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