While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined ... N95 respirators and surgical masks are worn by medical professionals treating people infected with the coronavirus.

For instance, if you're just wearing a single surgical mask ... and you put it on top of your mask. And I know it sounds silly, but studies show this can really boost mask performance.

They may look silly but a new study finds surgical masks are your best protection against a cold or the flu. Donning a face mask — either a surgical mask or a P2/N95 respirator mask (high partic ...

When comparing the use of medical/surgical masks to wearing no masks, the review found that “wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID ...

“If a virus is aerosol transmissible, there’s no question that it’s better to wear a fit-tested N95 [than a surgical mask]. There’s just no question. I would be surprised if anyone would ...

And there’s certainly evidence that surgical masks can block some relatively large respiratory droplets. Early in the pandemic, though, some researchers saw evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was ...

Surgical masks are not inferior to N95 masks for health-care workers providing routine COVID-19 care, study finds. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

This draft recommendation does not specify what kind of mask to wear — either looser-fitting surgical masks or more fitted and tightly woven N95 respirators. The decision frustrated some ...

UKHSA's Prof Susan Hopkins questioned over face masks at Covid inquiry. There is only “weak evidence” that high-grade face masks better protected health workers than surgical ones in the ...