Small study, but I thought it was interesting how well N95 respirators worked without any fit testing. I remember at the beginning of the pandemic there was a lot of concern about how well these type of masks would work for the average person without any fit testing.
Measuring the fitted...
Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review
Authors: Trisha Greenhalgh, C. Raina MacIntyre, Michael G. Baker, Shovon Bhattacharjee, Abrar A. Chughtai, David Fisman, Mohana Kunasekaran, Joe Vipond et al...
I rarely go out and seem to have ended up with a bunch of useless masks. I'd like better ones. I gather that cotton ones, even with a tissue layer, aren't much good; I've bought some that are supposed to be better, but they don't fit, so presumably are 100% useless for self-protection.
What are...
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