CORONA Main Coronavirus thread

Mark D said:

This thread is moving slower by the day. The governments of the World are doing a good job of controlling the information.

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Nah, I am just trying not to waste folks time and eyesight with lots of fluff--- and the mods took my coffee urn away

• Hubei province, China: The numbers include clinically-diagnosed cases, which means they were not confirmed by laboratory testing.
• Japan: The total includes 4 asymptomatic cases, which are not included in the government’s official count.
• Japan: The total includes 355 people from the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship. They are not included in the government’s official count.
• North Korea: Unconfirmed reports about 1, 5, or 7 cases in North Korea cannot be verified. If cases are confirmed by the North Korean government, they will be added to this list.

Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

The table below shows cases of coronavirus (officially known as SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, or 2019-nCoV) around the world. Each figure is verified by our team through local health departments or local media. A distribution map and a timeline with a list of recent updates can be found below the table...

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• 02:15: 5 new cases in Beijing. (Source)
• 02:10: 13 new cases in Jiangsu province, China. (Source)
• 01:35: 70 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 355. (Source)
• 01:24: 12 new cases in Jiangxi province, China. (Source)
• 01:22: 12 new cases in Anhui province, China. (Source)
• 01:20: 3 new cases and 1 new death in Hunan province, China. The death was previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 01:18: 5 new cases in Zhejiang province, China. (Source)
• 01:13: 22 new cases in Guangdong province, China. (Source)
• 01:05: 2 new cases in Shanghai. (Source)
• 01:01: 1 new case in South Korea. (Source)
• 00:55: 1 new case in Tianjin, China. (Source)
• 00:53: China’s National Health Commission reports 100 new cases and 1 new death on the mainland, excluding Hubei province. Their locations have not yet been released. Compared to yesterday’s national update, there were 166 new cases and 3 new deaths outside Hubei province. (Source)
• 00:44: 20 new cases in Heilongjiang province, China. (Source)
• 00:41: 11 new cases and 2 new deaths in Sichuan province, China. (Source)
• 00:10: 19 new cases in Henan province, China. (Source)
• 00:06: 5 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)

• 23:07: 6 new cases in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 22:15: 1,843 new cases and 139 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 20:34: 1 new case in France. (Source)
• 15:55: 1 new case in Malaysia. Former passenger of the Westerdam cruise ship. (Source)
• 13:01: 5 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 12:15: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 10:07: 2 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 10:06: 1 new case in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 10:05: First death in France, first in Europe. (Source)
• 09:05: 8 new cases in Japan. (Source)
• 08:47: 67 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 285. (Source)
• 07:03: 2 new cases in Japan. The third case in the article was previously reported. (Source)
• 06:05: 1 new case in Thailand. (Source)
• 05:19: 2 new cases in Malaysia. (Source)
• 04:30: 3 new cases and 1 new death in Beijing. The death was previously reported by the National Health Commission. (Source)
• 04:18: 1 new case in Tianjin, China. (Source)
• 03:18: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 02:33: 7 new cases in Sichuan province, China. (Source)
• 02:25: 7 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 02:20: 11 new cases in Jiangsu province, China. (Source)
• 02:02: 13 new cases in Jiangxi province, China. (Source)
• 02:00: 16 new cases in Anhui province, China. (Source)
• 01:55: 13 new cases in Hunan province, China. (Source)
• 01:52: 7 new cases in Zhejiang province, China. (Source)
• 01:51: 28 new cases in Henan province, China. (Source)
• 01:04: 33 new cases in Guangdong province, China. (Source)
• 00:10: China’s National Health Commission reports 193 new cases and 3 new deaths on the mainland, excluding Hubei province. Their locations have not yet been disclosed. When compared to the previous day, there were 221 new cases and 4 new deaths outside Hubei province. (Source)

• 23:45: 8 new cases in Shanghai. (Source)
• 23:35: 7 new cases in Heilongjiang province, China. (Source)
• 23:30: 5 new cases in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 23:10: 2,420 new cases and 139 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 21:10: 1 new presumptive confirmed case in BC, Canada. (Source)
• 17:00: First case in Egypt. (Source)
• 14:03: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 14:00: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 13:54: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 13:50: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 11:05: 9 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 10:09: 2 new cases in Japan. (Source)
• 09:15: 3 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 08:47: 3 new cases and 1 new death in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 08:02: 4 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 07:51: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 03:25: China’s National Health Commission reports 267 new cases and 5 new deaths on the mainland, excluding Hubei province. Hubei Province deducted 108 prior deaths from the death toll due to double counting. (Source)
• 00:43: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)

• 23:45: 4,823 new cases and 116 new deaths in Hubei province, China. 1,043 cases which were previously reported were deducted from the government’s figures. (Source)
• 14:50: 3 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 15:10: 1 new case in the United States. First in Texas. (Source)
• 12:40: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 11:55: 1 new case, a fatality, in Japan. This is the first death in Japan. (Source 1)
• 11:36: 8 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 11:15: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 10:13: 1 new case in Malaysia. (Source)
• 09:05: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 08:15: China’s National Health Commission reports 312 new cases and 12 new deaths on the mainland, excluding Hubei province. (Source)
• 05:15: 1 new case in Vietnam. (Source)
• 03:10: 44 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 218. (Source)
• 00:25: 1 new case in California, United States. (Source)

• 23:48: 14,840 new cases, including clinically diagnosed cases, and 242 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 18:53: 1 new case in the United Kingdom. (Source)
• 08:24: 1 new case in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 07:00: 3 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 02:53: 1 new case in Japan. It is one of the quarantine officers who was working on board the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama. This case is not included in the total for the ship’s passengers and crew. (Source)
• 02:14: China’s National Health Commission reports 377 new cases and 3 new deaths across the mainland, excluding Hubei province. The deaths were in Henan province, Hunan province, and Chongqing. (Source)

• 23:55: 39 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 174. (Source)
• 22:17: 1,638 new cases and 94 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 21:01: 1 new case in Thailand. (Source)
• 19:25: 2 new cases in Germany. (Source)
• 16:10: 7 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 14:59: 2 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 06:57: 2 new cases in Japan. (Source)
• 02:37: 1 new case in Vietnam. (Source)
• 01:14: 1 new case in California, United States. (Source)
• 01:00: 1 new case in South Korea. (Source)
• 00:13: China’s National Health Commission reports 370 new cases and 5 new deaths on the mainland. Of the deaths, one each in: Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang province, Anhui province, and Henan province. (Source)

• 22:10: 2,097 new cases and 103 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 17:56: 1 new case in the United Arab Emirates. (Source)
• 16:00: 4 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 14:20: 2 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 12:30: 2 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 09:46: 4 new cases in the United Kingdom. (Source)
• 05:13: 65 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 135. (Source)
• 01:01: 1 new case in Malaysia. (Source)

Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

The table below shows cases of coronavirus (officially known as SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, or 2019-nCoV) around the world. Each figure is verified by our team through local health departments or local media. A distribution map and a timeline with a list of recent updates can be found below the table...

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ainitfunny said:

Well, well. NOBODY thought The WESTERDAM CRUISE SHIP had any infected people aboard, but NHK TV Japan news Just announced that after 5 nations refused entry AND CAMBODIA LET IT DOCK AND DISEMBARK PASSENGERS, that they just found one elderly lady DOES HAVE COV 19 with symptoms. I wonder where the other passengers went?

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1911user said:

I decided to do a crazy search and just now found where Contagion (2011) was posted to archive.org less than a day ago. The science in this is quite accurate compared to many other virus/pandemic movies. It's a bad outbreak of a bug from China (sound familiar?)

Here it is:
Contagion : Contagion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <<<--- movie page
https://archive.org/download/contagion2011_202002/5_6170202446099382546.mp4 <<<--- download link (hold cursor over the link,right click, save link as: )

They didn't hide the name or anything so this will get deleted and I suspect quickly. Save a copy now to watch later.

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marsh said:

Way back when this first came out, one of the veteran Public Health nurses I worked for told me to watch this. She said, it will be just like this.

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Seeker22 said:

An army fights on its stomach. The leaders and military at the top have for years been saying that they are training for the long game. To wipe us out and/or take us over. Since it is GSM time and their empire is about shot anyway, let it fall. Don't import a thing. No food, no meds, no tech- nothing. They have stolen us blind and were doing it with trade until steps were taken to rein that in. They rebuffed us thrice and won't let us help with the virus. They are causing untold harm by not telling us what they know about the virus to save the time of reverse engineering it. So be it.

They need to bring their population numbers down. The virus is doing that. Less mouths to feed means that if they can get some imported food, or manage to grow some, they might squeak through. If, and it is a BIG if, the virus doesn't jump to the bird or animal populations used for food. Once it is known that China released this plague on the world, who will give them any imports, especially food? China will never again be the world power it was in November 2019. Wuhan has fallen.

This virus is the Great Equalizer. Even at this late date, the Chinese people need to Stand Up. Throw off the chains and make China what it truly needs to be. Leave communism in the icy mud of another age. Like Snoopy Zen says- just let that $hit go. The people are the soul of China. They can farm and grow food right up to the time snow flies. These people are strong enough to come through this, and they will remember and never again let communism gain a foothold.
That is what I dream. I fear my reality will be much different in the coming days.

How bad will the industrial shutdown hurt them? How bad will it hurt us? The GSM is here. When machinery won't run because it is too cold or the storms blow the roof off- both of us are going to be in the same fix. Our countries can fight about it but it won't change the weather. We will both have the virus to contend with. Do we really want to contend with nuclear fallout, too?

They can try to bully food and supplies out of us, but I don't think Trump will stand for that. If Trump is who people believe he is, we will spool up factories within the next couple of months and take back our manufacturing. We should have never let it leave our shores.

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1911user said:

We're in for a wild ride in the US if it does follow the movie.

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Cascadians said:

Asked by conservative commentator Geraldo Rivera if China was telling the truth about coronavirus, Mr Trump said: “Well you never know. I think they want to put the best face on it, so you know I mean if somebody, if you were running it you’d probably, you wouldn’t want to run out to the world and go crazy and start saying whatever it is because you don’t want to create a panic.”

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• Develop policy guidance for mitigating outbreaks when the normal health system becomes overwhelmed. The US government should outline contingency plans for mitigating mass-scale domestic transmission of the virus and for providing mass-scale isolation and treatment. As the US updates its national pandemic planning, it should also develop clear mechanisms for distributed care, including home diagnosis and isolation, and clear guidance and options to local authorities for social distancing measures. Federal and state health authorities should review the crisis thresholds at which these measures would be triggered. In the interim, federal officials should provide regularly updated guidance on best practices for social distancing measures. The US National Academies of Medicine could also convene medical technology companies to recommend investments to improve home isolation and care during a major epidemic or pandemic.
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• Scale up support to frontline health workers. In any novel outbreak, frontline health workers bear the greatest risks. In China, reports portray shocking levels of infections among health facility staff, as workers struggle to maintain services amid a growing wave of cases. A comparably sized outbreak in the US might play out similarly; the US health system has limited surge capacity and inadequate support for outbreak readiness. In the immediate term, urgent measures must be taken to ready frontline health workers to safely manage a surge in cases. This must include training and guidance on screening, case management, and infection prevention protocols. It must also address crisis care guidance for health facilities on managing limitations on bed availability and critical supplies. Importantly, this guidance and support should focus not only on hospitals, but also on smaller clinics and urgent care centers where people with COVID-19 symptoms may initially present. The government should also act to address the financial burden that a surge in cases would also pose, as health systems would be forced to increase staffing, hours, personnel risk mitigation, and other measures outside normal budgeted services.
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• Pursue additional manufacturing capability and reinforce the existing supply chain for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical medical supplies. The US should urgently review its PPE supply chain—for domestic and international use—to determine availability of basic PPE during a respiratory epidemic of COVID-19. The US should urgently develop and publicly communicate plans for PPE distribution within the US and globally. It should also develop options for addressing PPE shortfalls, including scaling up PPE manufacturing, and parameters for reuse in crisis conditions. At a global level, the World Health Organization (WHO) should lead and publish a review of vulnerabilities in the global supply of PPE and explore urgent new mechanisms for global sharing and distribution of limited PPE stores. These analyses should also include other critical medical supplies and equipment that could face shortfalls in a pandemic scenario.
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• Communicate regularly to the public through trusted experts. Fear, panic, and mis/disinformation will exacerbate preparedness gaps and cost lives. The US should continue to communicate outbreak information to the American public through scientifically credible communicators. The recent practice of communicating through knowledgeable senior HHS, CDC, and NIH officials has been positive and should be maintained. These officials should regularly update the public on planning for COVID-19 spread in the US and globally.'
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• Increase and sustain domestic and global preparedness investments. US pandemic preparedness planning at a federal level waxes and wanes in the absence of a crisis. With the expiration of the 2015 Ebola funding for hospital preparedness, the US must create a more sustainable financing model for hospital epidemic preparedness, as well as preparedness within broader health systems and among urgent care facilities and walk-in clinics. Importantly, the approach used on Ebola—designating a small number of highly capable reference facilities—would be insufficient to meet needs of a more widespread domestic outbreak of COVID-19. Guidance and mechanisms for supplying surge capacity in crisis situations also remains a gap. Funding to enhance public health preparedness for major outbreaks is also inadequate, and needs sustained ongoing support. Meanwhile, at state and local levels, the executive branch should support governors and mayors to develop and exercise preparedness plans for COVID-19 and other emerging pandemic risks.
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• Address urgent vulnerabilities in the developing world. A virus that can strain a health system like China’s will pose enormous challenges to health systems in poor and underdeveloped countries. As Ebola outbreaks have demonstrated, infection prevention is weak, and frontline health workers in the developing world are at particular risk. The US should partner with other donors, philanthropies, and the WHO to reinforce pandemic preparedness and infection prevention and control readiness in the developing world, both urgently for the current outbreak and through longer-term health security investments.
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• Support coordinated international action. The COVID-19 outbreak is rapidly becoming an international coordination challenge. While the WHO declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern was intended to align international engagement and investments, it has not prevented countries from imposing sweeping travel restrictions despite WHO advice to the contrary. The political and diplomatic challenges around this outbreak will only become more fraught in the weeks ahead. The UN Secretary-General and the WHO Director-General should jointly convene a special UN Security Council meeting to harmonize international action on the outbreak, and consider setting up a standing coordination and leadership platform for high-consequence biological events, such as those with the potential to overwhelm national governments, within the Office of the UN Secretary-General.
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• Support research and innovative technologies. As with any emerging disease, a tremendous amount of knowledge must be generated to understand the nature of the virus; develop, test, and manufacture medical countermeasures; and determine the evolving epidemiology, best practices for clinical care, and the impact on populations, economies, and security. Likewise, technological innovations hold the potential to support the response to COVID-19 and future major pandemics. Technologies like digital health platforms, rapid point of care diagnostics, and population-level data tools are achievable and could prove important to the response. The US should support collaborative research and innovation, integrating professionals from academia, the private sector, and government to develop and validate knowledge to mitigate the outbreak. This should include pursuit of regulatory, logistic, and broad platform and manufacturing innovation to accelerate bringing solutions into timely use.
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• Amplify diagnostic capacity. Diagnostic capacity for COVID-19 in the US remains limited, with samples going to centralized CDC and state public health labs and at times taking several days to convey results. These turnaround times burden frontline hospitals that must isolate patients for extended periods while awaiting results. Volumes remain limited even with CDC distribution of its emergency use authorized test kits. Efforts are needed to scale up testing capacity, including through accelerating investments in rapid point-of-care testing.
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• Develop new partnerships to distribute and dispense medical countermeasures for COVID-19 now, before they come online. Last-mile dispensing of medical countermeasures has not been solved in the US. While there has been progress in major cities, the US should urgently assess its plans, staffing, and partnerships with the private sector for administering and dispensing medical countermeasures for COVID-19 once they come online. These plans should account for a variety of circumstances, including vaccine hesitancy; hard-to-reach communities; protection of healthcare workers and others administering, delivering, or dispensing medical countermeasures; and other disruptions that could impede medical countermeasure delivery, dispensing, or administration.

Expert Recommendations for US and Global Preparedness for COVID-19

The world is woefully unready for a scenario in which China-like conditions emerge in multiple other countries.

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pops88 said:

Hope you're buckled in with a 4 point harness, airbags and a roll-bar. Keep your hands inside the ride.

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jward said:

Masks vs. Respirators: Experts Explain COVID-19 Recommendations

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13 Feb 2020




In its newly published infection prevention and control recommendations for COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the use of N95 respirators in a healthcare setting with the suspected novel coronavirus, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended surgical masks for general patient care and respirators for aerosol-generating procedures only.


Bruce Ribner, MD, medical director of the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit at Emory University Hospital, said the two masks serve very different functions. A surgical mask, or procedural mask, is meant to protect the environment from the wearer.


“It’s meant to keep the surgeon’s respiratory issues away from a patient,” Ribner explained. A surgical mask does a good job of trapping large droplets, and some aerosol transmission, he said. Many of the masks being worn in China, though, are not designed for medical use or to any standards and so their effectiveness in trapping droplets is unknown.


A respirator, such as an N95, fits tighter to the face and is meant to help protect the wearer from inhaling infectious droplets in the environment.


“We don’t really know how the coronavirus is being transmitted from person to person, because no one has done the NIOSH studies that simulate the cough big droplets that land 3 to 6 feet away from a person or the little droplets that can travel long distances and in air handling system,” Ribner said. “So we have to use what we know about other coronaviruses and influenza when it comes to this disease.”


What we know, Ribner said, is that multiple modes of transmission are likely at play, including large droplets, small droplets (or aerosols), and contaminated hands.


Read the full story at CIDRAP

Masks vs. Respirators: Experts Explain COVID-19 Recommendations | Global Biodefense

In its newly published infection prevention and control recommendations for COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends

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jward said:

not running across the actual medRxiv preprint that they're drawing from
EndGameWW3
@EndGameWW3
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Nothing like your balls falling off and your Kidneys blowing out...

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Testis and kidney damage may occur after a #COVID2019 infection, calling for attention to the risk of testicular lesions in patients during hospitalization and later clinical follow-ups, according to preprint research posted on #medRxiv #coronavirus

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northern watch said:

NTD News‏ @news_ntd 3h3 hours ago

China destroys cash to fight coronavirus; Report reveals Xi knew about virus spread before Jan. 7

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Xi ‘told China’s top echelon’ to tackle coronavirus outbreak in early days

Xi makes ‘rare’ disclosure move as he comes under heavy domestic and international pressure, analyst says.

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• Communist Party mouthpiece releases internal speech given to Politburo Standing Committee on February 3 with presidential orders to contain disease
• Xi makes ‘rare’ disclosure move as he comes under heavy domestic and international pressure, analyst says

bluelady said:

Also, money can be washed. In hot water, I would presume.

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• Sars’ fatality rate may be higher than Covid-19’s, but economically speaking the new coronavirus is far more deadly
• This time around, a worst-case scenario of financial collapse, foreign exodus and large-scale bankruptcy cannot be ruled out

Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on the topic since the early 1990s

Forget Sars, the coronavirus threatens a meltdown in China’s economy

Economically speaking, Covid-19 is far more deadly than 2003’s Sars. This time around, a worst-case scenario threatens financial collapse, foreign exodus and large-scale bankruptcy.

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Freeholder said:

Maybe some of the residents were elsewhere (out of the city) when the quarantine went into effect, too. Some might still have been with family elsewhere for the holiday.

Kathleen

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bw said:

A further comment on cleaning masks for re-use. I'm seeing plenty of the plastic half-face masks with replaceable cartridges in my lumber and home depot stores. These are $30 or more for the mask, and the cartridge depends on the application. The valves in the mask means your exhaled air never touches the filter, and they should be good for days or weeks. My wife and I use them with N100 filters (got a carton of them) and leave them on for months at a time. And you can comfortably wear them for hours.

If you want a mask, they're still out there. I don't know the effective life for filtering a virus, but it's gotta be better than your breathe-on-me N95.

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