Health officials impulse masks successful crowded spaces
BOSTON - As respiratory viruses surge each implicit the country, including present successful Massachusetts, wellness officials are saying it's clip to commencement wearing masks again.
Dr. Mallika Marshall said it's a tiny sacrifice to marque to enactment steadfast during what is turning retired to beryllium a atrocious twelvemonth for respiratory illnesses. She says from idiosyncratic experience, the flu is everyplace and volition apt beryllium the worst flu play successful a decade.
COVID cases are connected the emergence and people, some young and old, are inactive getting truly sick from RSV. She said each of these infections tin beryllium prevented by wearing a high-quality aesculapian mask, specified arsenic an N95 oregon KN95 model.
She recommends that we each deterioration masks erstwhile we're successful crowded spaces: connected nationalist transportation, successful airports, and connected planes, successful malls portion we bash our vacation shopping, and anyplace radical congregate.
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Mallika Marshall, MD is an Emmy-award-winning writer and doc who has served arsenic the HealthWatch Reporter for CBS Boston/WBZ-TV for implicit 20 years. A practicing doc Board Certified successful some Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Marshall serves connected unit astatine Harvard Medical School and practices astatine Massachusetts General Hospital astatine the MGH Chelsea Urgent Care and the MGH Revere Health Center, wherever she is presently moving connected the frontlines caring for patients with COVID-19. She is besides a big and contributing exertion for Harvard Health Publications (HHP), the publishing part of Harvard Medical School.
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