Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

So let's talk about that right now this is the article you published and there were three questions in the article. ONE: can infected individuals reduce the risk of spreading the virus to others by wearing face masks.

Well, this is very certain. Basically, the..when you wear a surgical mask...even if you are shedding viruses, many of those virus particles laid in the...droplets, cannot escape through the mask. So basically, actually, the most important function of wearing a surgical mask..is that..ehh.. even for asymptomatically infected individuals, or what we call subclinical mildly symptomatic individuals, ehh..they may be shedding viruses unknowingly, and by wearing a surgical mask this [ohörbart] will reduce the amount of infected residual droplets, or saliva, being from this patient or from this subclinically infected patients, to infect other people and also to infect the surrounding. Ehh.. you know that when the saliva and droplets come out, they often drop within three to six feet away from the patients, and that will lead to indirect or direct transmission, especially when the other people unknowingly touch such secretions, and we know that this Coronoavirus can survive on surfaces for many days. And that is perhaps one other important route of transmission besides directly spraying people with the virus through coughing and sneezing. So basically, I must say that wearing a mask protects other people...ehh..even if that person is already infected. And of course when you are wearing a mask while you are susceptible and not infected, it also protects you to some extent.