Evaluation of Aerosol Particle Leak and Standard Surgical Mask Fit With 3 Elastomeric Harness Designs

Ingabire, Jeannette; McKenney, Hannah; Sebesta, Charles; Badhiwala, Krishna N.; Kemere, Caleb; Kapur, Sahil K.; Robinson, Jacob T.

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.45811

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“…It is now clear that the presence of fine particles exhaled by infected patients and the risk situations in hospitals [3] are two factors that argue in favor of N95 respirators. However, N95 respirators require a seal [72] , [73] , and previous work suggested that in terms of the risk of penetration, peripheral leaks had a greater impact than level of filtration.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spread of viruses, which measures are the most apt to control COVID-19?

Tandjaoui-Lambiotte

Lomont²,

Moenne-Locoz³

et al. 2023

Infectious Diseases Now

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Section: Discussion-conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spread of viruses, which measures are the most apt to control COVID-19?

Tandjaoui-Lambiotte

Lomont²,

Moenne-Locoz³

et al. 2023

Infectious Diseases Now

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“…Environmental friendliness regards material environmental friendliness, waste yield, and recyclable value as its evaluation indexes [14,21]. Social desirability takes mask ergonomics, aesthetics, and functionality as its evaluation indexes, where the functionality contains several aspects such as droplet blocking ability, facial fit, and smooth breathing [1,22]. It has difficulties in investigating social desirability due to the fact that it is closely concerned with how masks affect human well-being, including human equality, social justice, and people's happiness [23].…”

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The Sustainability Evaluation of Masks Based on the Integrated Rank Sum Ratio and Entropy Weight Method

Zhu

Xin

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Due to the seriousness of COVID-19, masks are considered to be as a key and effective device to cut off the spread of viruses and are widely used by people, such as doctors and patients. Hundreds of millions of masks used worldwide in daily life will inevitably cause huge pollution and damage to the environment. However, existing research has not yet provided a method to simultaneously evaluate the economic, environmental, and social aspects of sustainable design of masks, which brings great barriers and challenges for designers to make sustainability decisions on masks and consumers’ behavioral decisions on mask purchases. Consequently, on the basis of principles of sustainability evaluation of masks, this work evaluates ten masks of different materials (including two newly designed masks) by using a novel hybrid of rank-sum ratio and entropy weight method. The results indicate that some disposable masks also show better sustainability than reusable masks, and in addition, the integrated rank-sum ratio and entropy weight method can effectively realize the sustainability evaluation of masks. The main contribution is to furnish an effective decision-making reference for sustainability evaluation of masks while greatly reducing the negative impacts of masks on the environment during the epidemic.

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