2020
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-020-02241-3
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A cloth mask for under-resourced healthcare settings in the COVID19 pandemic

Abstract: Introduction COVID19 pandemic poses a global threat, with many unknowns. The potential for resource limited countries to suffer huge mortality is of major concern. Prevention and risk reduction strategies are paramount in the current absence of effective treatment or a vaccine. There is a global shortage of personal protective equipment. Aims This short paper describes the rationale for and development of a cloth homemade mask and has a step by step video. Results The template is reproducible around the world … Show more

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“…Making a cloth mask can be as simple as combining two cloth layers with stretchable ear loops (Figure 8(a)) [91]. Sugrue et al introduced a step-by-step method of making a cloth mask using household materials including cotton, metal garden wire, and elastic bands (Figure 8(b)) [92]. The fabricated cloth mask has demonstrated its good comfort and fitness to the human face.…”
Section: Masks Made From Household Materialsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Making a cloth mask can be as simple as combining two cloth layers with stretchable ear loops (Figure 8(a)) [91]. Sugrue et al introduced a step-by-step method of making a cloth mask using household materials including cotton, metal garden wire, and elastic bands (Figure 8(b)) [92]. The fabricated cloth mask has demonstrated its good comfort and fitness to the human face.…”
Section: Masks Made From Household Materialsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Singapore, the health authority states that there is no need to wear masks if you are well ( Wang C. et al., 2020 ). One approach is done to make a cloth mask for low income countries to be allowed only in case of unavailability of surgical masks ( Sugrue et al., 2020 ). On the other hand, some researchers suggest trying the fiber masks impregnated with antiviral nanomaterial to work in a synergistic way to reduce the infection ( Livingston et al., 2020 ; Sportelli et al., 2020 ).…”
Section: Environmental and Occupational Risk Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With no hard evidence on cloth masks' filtering capacity, which leaves the scientific community sceptical (Chan and Yuen 2020;Javid, Weekes, and Matheson 2020), this market has remained unmanned by specialised medical supply companies. As most countries embraced community masks in line with a precautionary principle (Jingnan 2020;Sugrue et al 2020) believing that wearing cloth masks is instrumental for community protection, non-specialist newcomers in facemasks production appeared to occupy and exploit such market gap (and are here to stay). In all of these cases, scientific evidence on facemasks (or what is presented as such) has become integrated into a system of market(ing) communication (Silchenko and Askegaard 2020) turning the expert wisdom into "a commodifiable media product" (Coveney 2006) rather than a universal "truth.…”
Section: Scientific Versus Common Sense Wisdommentioning
confidence: 99%