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How to face the COVID-19 real world threat with masks?

An important descriptive means for creating homemade face masks is carefully and intelligently described by physician public health luminary and member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php, Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH - Past President and webmaster American Association of Public Health Physicians (USA).

Please listen to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) journal’s April 2, 2020 Podcast https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/405814 and read the transcript https://tools.cdc.gov/podcasts/media/pdf/EID_6-06_Simple_Respiratory_Masks.pdf for directions:

Making a Simple Respiratory Mask

Dr. Virginia Dato, a physician board certified in public health and general preventive medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss how to construct a simple respiratory face mask with easily available materials.

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Topics: Emergency Preparedness & Response, Personal Protective Equipment, Public Health, COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019
Published: 4/2/2020
Last Updated: 4/2/2020

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