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As flu cases spike, is it time to start wearing masks again?
NHS leaders recommend mask use for symptomatic individuals to curb flu spread amid rising hospital admissions and a vaccine-mismatched H3N2 strain, with evidence on mask efficacy mixed.
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The Independent (US)Why N95 masks likely won’t protect you against the flu
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As flu cases spike, is it time to start wearing masks again?
Yau Ming Low/Shutterstock.comWith flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: do masks actually work against the flu? The short answer is that the evidence remains surprisingly weak. Studies conducted before the COVID pandemic generally found that masks made little to no difference in the spread of flu in everyday settings. There is little reason to think this has changed…
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