" Perhaps less scientifically soundly, he adds, "The government says the surgical mask is good for the doctors; well, this is thicker than a surgical mask.
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The man running the camera is wearing a surgical mask.
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He is wearing blue jeans and a disposable surgical mask.
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The guy was in pajama pants and a surgical mask.
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Noriko Tanaka, 40, stands next to Iida in a surgical mask.
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Maybe I should start wearing a surgical mask when I visit my parents.
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Most people in the city have a surgical mask ready in their bags.
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She wore sunglasses and a surgical mask to protect herself against pepper spray.
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G. is also in a surgical mask and I almost don't recognise her!
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"I can imagine that we could find something even better than a surgical mask, because the surgical mask wasn't designed especially for this purpose," he said, suggesting that more research should be done to find out which fabrics best catch viruses.
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No amount of intricate crocheting can remove the feeling of wearing a surgical mask.
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In addition to wearing a surgical mask, "everyone should wash their hands," he said.
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Shirley Baker, a nurse, deftly ties on a surgical mask before opening the door.
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One popular illustration turned the outlines of Dr. Li's surgical mask into barbed wire.
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He tapes his surgical mask to his face so his glasses won't fog up.
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But the assailant, who was wearing a surgical mask and gloves, slashed her twice.
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A surgical mask, scarf or bandanna will not filter out many pollutants at all.
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A man in a surgical mask rides on the subway in Brooklyn, March 163.
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A man wearing a surgical mask stands hunched over a wheelbarrow, surrounded by rubble.
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His initial attempts to address the problem with a surgical mask only ended in frustration.
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A surgical mask, scarf or bandanna will not do much to filter out many pollutants.
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One of them let out an uncontrolled laugh, her eyes widening above her surgical mask.
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"We don't know how long it will last," he said from behind a surgical mask.
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Now, they are getting one surgical mask to use for an entire 12-hour shift.
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There is the surgical mask that people wear that doesn't really seal up very well.
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One of his sons wore a surgical mask on Wednesday for protection from the fumes.
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Hopefully, Buck Showalter shows up to exchange lineup cards with John Farrell wearing a surgical mask.
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A surgical mask won't help much unless you're already sick or next to someone who is.
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Richardson estimates healthcare workers can get six to 10 uses out of a single surgical mask.
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The work of Australian investigators provides further support for the value of the simple surgical mask.
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Guven, wearing a surgical mask, made a victory sign from inside an ambulance after her release.
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He wore handcuffs, leg shackles, earmuffs, blackout goggles, a surgical mask, and a bright-orange jumpsuit.
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Sorrell said there's no reason to use a surgical mask if you're healthy and not infected.
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Brizzi was wearing a hedgehog onesie, and his face was hidden behind sunglasses and a surgical mask.
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Daniela's eyes, peeking out between her pink woolen hat and surgical mask, drip tears of extreme pain.
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A surgical mask can block large particles, including saliva, to protect both the wearer and surrounding people.
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Surgical mask maker Alpha Pro Tech Ltd tumbled 17% but remains up over 350% year-to-date.
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I picture a surgical mask made of shiny pink lace, extra bra fabric burning in a vat.
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Zhang himself looks slightly green, due to a cold, and wears a surgical mask throughout our interview.
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When he arrived, a nurse gave him a surgical mask and escorted him to a private room.
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"Here I am in my sweats and my surgical mask and I'm walking into gloom," Fehrenbacher said.
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He covered his eyes with a surgical mask that he'd been handed at the front of plane.
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It's important to know that a surgical mask is not enough to stop small particles, Dr. Edelman said.
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"I kept on driving because they were out everywhere," she said, pulling down her surgical mask to talk.
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And with that, I'm going to put my surgical mask back on and lock myself in my apartment.
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Fallon donned a surgical mask to welcome Clinton to the show – a callout to her recent bout of pneumonia.
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He was jetting off to Dubai Sunday, and his germ-deflecting surgical mask wasn't all that caught our eye.
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For those already with some sort of illness, wearing a surgical mask might help prevent the spread of germs.
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If you or your doctor suspect you might have the Wuhan coronavirus, the CDC advises wearing a surgical mask.
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Tips include wearing a surgical mask while in crowded places and maintaining drainage pipes properly to ensure environmental hygiene.
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SURGICAL MASK Ghosn was released on Wednesday from the Tokyo Detention Center, where he had been held since his Nov.
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She donned a surgical mask, grabbed a sewing kit from their office and went to work sewing Sam back together.
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She said to the Times that she saw Albert exit the restroom wearing a white or baby blue surgical mask.
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Even while undergoing his 12 chemotherapy treatments, Conner, 21, would run in a surgical mask, hoping to keep in shape.
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He had heavy, ghoulish mascara around his eyes and wore a surgical mask with a hole ripped through the mouth.
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Surgical mask or face mask — These are loose-fitting masks that don't filter out as many particles as a respirator.
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"The fact is, your typical surgical mask is not going to protect or prevent infection," one health expert told us.
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Bahije Mounia, a 42-year-old caretaker from a nearby town who wore a surgical mask, turned right back around.
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Amazon is reportedly deleting some third-party listings that jack up surgical mask prices as the coronavirus creates a shortage.
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Hudson also posted an airplane selfie on Instagram of herself wearing a surgical mask and expressed her concern about traveling.
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You can also attach a surgical mask to your profile pic to let your friends know you're taking social distancing seriously.
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"It was very hard for me to make it through," he said, as a surgical mask kept slipping off his face.
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However, for a person who is sick and aiming to protect others, wearing a store-bought surgical mask may be beneficial.
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Noninfected people near you should wear an air-purifying respirator like an N95 mask, and you should wear a surgical mask.
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WEARING A WHITE surgical mask hiding half her face, a young woman walks into a suicide-prevention centre by the Tojinbo cliffs.
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I followed the advice of wearing a surgical mask — which I purchased on Amazon back in the US — about half the time.
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Mr. Xi, wearing a powder blue surgical mask and a black suit, made no public remarks, at least according to initial reports.
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The late-night host put on a surgical mask and used hand sanitizer on his hands after high-fiving the Democratic nominee.
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Hassan, a young man wearing a surgical mask and gloves, held up two plastic bags that he believed contained charred human flesh.
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The faint stinging smell of gas pervaded the air for a few minutes, and Hashem placed a surgical mask over his mouth.
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She has a surgical mask and a tub of baby wipes to keep her hands and face clean, but not much else.
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Supervisors provide a paper bag with a surgical mask in it to each doctor, who has to put their name on it.
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The usual hordes of commuters and tourists have been replaced by a smattering of security guards and surgical mask-wearing New Yorkers.
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I took a second look at the sizable over-head storage as I exited the flight with other surgical mask-clad passengers.
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"All Hong Kongers are afraid, but what more do we have to lose?" said Carmen, her face hidden behind a surgical mask.
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During this period, he had to avoid crowded spaces and wear a surgical mask if he did venture outside his hospital room.
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In the video Xi, wearing a surgical mask over his nose and mouth, is shown talking to people and having his temperature taken.
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Besides a onesie, he was also said to be wearing a surgical mask and a slew of wires, as the Washington Post reports.
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He dishes some pretty good advice on how she can go incognito and dodge paparazzi: wear a surgical mask with a skull cap.
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CreditCreditKayana Szymczak for The New York Times BOSTON — David Reich wore a hooded, white suit, cream-colored clogs, and a blue surgical mask.
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It was a medical kit, which, when she tore it open, turned out to contain a surgical mask, plastic gloves, and shoe covers.
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A surgical mask helps stop the droplets a person spits from their mouth onto a surface or their hands that spread the virus.
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One is to douse a surgical mask in disinfectant—it almost numbs your mucous membrane, so the only thing you smell is the disinfectant.
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The primary purpose of a surgical mask is, contrary to popular understanding, to keep germs in and other matter, like blood or dust, out.
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Although Kimura wears a surgical mask, her sadness about the growing silence around the dangers of radiation can still be seen on her face.
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Doctor Mansour Maarouf dons a surgical mask as he approaches the morgue refrigerator and pauses before pulling open the door to an icy blast.
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He then entered the building's vestibule dressed in a hedgehog suit and a surgical mask, an outfit associated with Japanese anime culture, Davis said.
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He wears a surgical mask as required, he said, but that makes no one nervous in Hanoi; thousands of passing motorcyclists wear them, too.
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He bought her a surgical mask for 40 rupees — about 60 cents — from a merchant at an intersection, but she kept pulling it off.
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In Brooklyn criminal court this week, for instance, a woman in a surgical mask waited in the hallway for her daughter's arraignment, coughing repeatedly.
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On Wednesday, a man in Boston robbed a bank while wearing a surgical mask, and on Friday, the same thing happened in New Jersey.
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Another group, "Surgical Mask and N95 suppliers Lounge," was created on February 1, 2020, and boasts 4,000 members posting 300-plus times a day.
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"Wearing a surgical mask helps you prevent sharing your germs if you're sick," Saskia Popescu, a hospital epidemiologist and infection prevention expert, told CNN.
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A young father hoisted his little girl on his shoulder, carefully affixing a surgical mask to her face, an imperfect shield from the gas.
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Abstaining from cold meds out of coronavirus-based fear is definitely an overcorrection—at least, in the U.S.—in the vein of surgical mask hoarding.
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Hanneman also noted Wednesday that there is also a photo circulating purporting to show Landen's mother in a surgical mask, sitting at his hospital bedside.
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When he goes out to see a movie or take a walk, he wears a surgical mask — partly because he is embarrassed by his disfiguration.
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Choi, 60, arrived at the prosecutor's office on Tuesday morning in handcuffs and a surgical mask and wearing a dark coat, escorted by correctional officers.
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Across town, college student John Yang, 23, wore a surgical mask as he traveled with a friend on a train under Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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His face covered by a surgical mask against the dust raised by the debris, he wept as he acknowledged the grim truth behind the wait.
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On a personal level, members of the public should wear a surgical mask when having respiratory symptoms, taking public transport or staying in crowded places.
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Still, I often catch a glimpse of a cautious commuter either wearing a surgical mask or rubber gloves and carrying hand sanitizer at the ready.
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"The homemade face mask and surgical mask, they are not designed to protect you from infection," Anna Davies, the lead author on the study, said.
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They estimate that in a home setting, wearing a surgical mask decreases a well person's risk of getting sick by 60 percent to 80 percent.
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Sweat beaded on his forehead and ran down into his yellow surgical mask as he described the one-two punch that flu had given him.
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During his outing, Xi wore a regular surgical mask, of the type available to most people, rather than a respirator or more sophisticated face covering.
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On Thursday, the New Yorker released a preview of next week's cover, which shows President Trump yelling while wearing a surgical mask over his eyes.
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And as I arrived in Vietnam six hours later, my new driver pointed to his surgical mask and blamed Chinese visitors for spreading the coronavirus.
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There are "literal barriers" like a surgical mask and gown, Hagstrom Miller said, between the doctor and the patient — barriers that don't have to be there.
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But the biggest shocker of the night came when Valentina had to lip sync for her life and did not remove her bedazzled red surgical mask.
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To her immediate right was a woman fidgeting with a cell phone and another whose face was hidden below the eyes by a white surgical mask.
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And Zhijun Wang, a Chinese designer, has bulked up the basic surgical mask, using designer sneakers as material, thus converting fetishized footwear into post-apocalyptic chic.
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She took off the surgical mask, hiked to the car, and drove to the nearest store, where she bought some root vegetables and rice and fruit.
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"Today, it could disqualify the pro-independence legislators," he said, wearing a surgical mask and plastic goggles as he stood in the middle of the demonstration.
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A crowd gathered to watch as a man in a smart grey suit and green surgical mask carefully sliced open the sandy-haired 24.0-year-old's finger.
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A crowd gathered to watch as a man in a smart grey suit and green surgical mask carefully sliced open the sandy-haired 18-year-old's finger.
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When volunteers were bare-mouthed, coronavirus was detected in 30 to 290 percent of their sampled droplets; when they wore a surgical mask, no coronavirus was detected.
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Television channels earlier broadcast images of Anwar, wearing a surgical mask and flanked by policemen from the Anti-Terrorist Squad, walking into the Supreme Court without handcuffs.
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"There's so much dust and grime in here that occasionally I tell visitors they should bring a surgical mask," said Mr. Fernandes, 57, the church's lonely watchman.
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Mike Tomko, the station's news director, said on the station's website that the man was wearing a white, one-piece panda suit with a surgical mask and sunglasses.
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Blue is good, and the closer you get to red, the more you ought to consider investing in a surgical mask to wear around in your daily life.
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There is little evidence that walking around in a flat surgical mask gives a healthy person much protection — which is why many officials have said not to bother.
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The patient who had reported nausea was sitting up in bed in the master bedroom, shirtless, wearing a surgical mask, with a comforter pulled up to his waist.
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And last month, Georgia authorities said they were looking for a man who wore a surgical mask during robberies of six banks in the suburbs north of Atlanta.
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For a 2009 study of influenza transmission, nine infected volunteers coughed five times onto a Petri dish while wearing a surgical mask, an N953 respirator, or no covering.
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I wore a surgical mask over my face on the walk to our made-up starting line in Golden Bauhinia Square, but ditched it once we set off.
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Sitting astride his electric scooter with a surgical mask strapped to his face, Zhao said restaurant orders have dwindled, while more and more people are ordering from grocery stores.
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Part of her thigh and Achilles tendon helped cover the wounds, but Stubblefield had grown accustomed to going out in public with a surgical mask or covered with scarves.
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For Hillary Clinton's appearance on Monday night, Fallon welcomed her with a surgical mask and plenty of hand sanitizer after she made headlines for her recent bout with pneumonia.
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The agency last week ordered a train operator who refused to remove a surgical mask to sit in a break room for at least two shifts, union officials said.
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The FDA also warned last week of coming surgical mask and gown shortages, and told healthcare workers how to limit gown and mask usage if they are running low.
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Because the facility is on lockdown, for her birthday he put on a surgical mask and gloves and placed a sign on the lawn in front of her apartment.
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Another study using a realistic manikin that simulated human breathing concluded that, when accounting for leakage, a surgical mask can filter at least 295 percent of 219 micron particles.
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Like the extraordinarily bright whiteness of the surgical mask of that doctor, who also told me that had I not moved faster it would have been so much worse.
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Richard Prince's "Prison Nurse" (2003) with its pink-skinned blonde in a surgical mask – ideal and spleen — looks like a flatly painted gimmick compared to Moreau's refined and layered epics.
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During inhalation, much of the potentially contaminated air can pass through gaps between the face and the surgical mask and not be pulled through the filter material of the mask.
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In another video posted to the doctor's public YouTube channel, the Atlanta-area board-certified dermatologist dances with surgical instruments in each hand, but without a surgical mask or gloves.
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Jimmy Fallon donned a surgical mask Monday night to interview Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Panpimon Wipulakorn, Director-General for the Department of Health, told Reuters that cloth masks can prevent people from catching the virus from nearby coughs or sneezes, like a surgical mask.
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"There was a cute old guy who was throwing a ball against a wall in his surgical gloves, and a basketball guy playing alone in a surgical mask," she said.
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The surgical mask performed best, followed by the vacuum cleaner bag and kitchen towel, but the latter were too thick and stiff to be worn for long periods of time.
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Just as some kids fixate on being firefighters or police officers, he knew from then on that, when he grew up, he wanted to wear blue scrubs and a surgical mask.
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The CDC recommends that so-called "secondary screeners," who meet with passengers who have traveled to certain countries, such as China, wear a surgical mask, gloves and eye protection, Nordlund said.
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Ms. Laszlo, carrying a television camera and wearing a surgical mask, was recording in a field near the Serbia-Hungary border in September 2015, when migrants broke through a police cordon.
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The CDC recommends that so-called secondary screeners, who meet with passengers who have traveled to certain countries, such as China, wear a surgical mask, gloves and eye protection, Nordlund said.
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Believed to be the last female obstetrician-gynecologist working in the rebel-held east, Farida wore a full vest and a surgical mask for her interview with CNN to conceal her identity.
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CCA was quick to get its workers up to date on shots—employees had to either get immunized, prove immunity, or start wearing a surgical mask at work, a spokesperson told me.
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"We've been running all day but we're not tired," said Ah Sing, a protester in his 30s, wearing a black vest and surgical mask while he rushed from one protest to another.
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"The water is here, just three meters beneath our feet," said Mr. Okamura, the Tepco general manager, who stood near the pipes wearing a white protective suit, goggles and a surgical mask.
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Gillian Jacobs stars as Harper, a New York publicist whose stressful nine-to-five existence isn't helped by a motormouth of a boss (Michaela Watkins) who attends meetings wearing a surgical mask.
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Awat Jeza, an intelligence officer wearing a surgical mask and gloves, stood before 130 of the kneeling men, who had all arrived on Sunday at the Asayish headquarters in Dibis, outside Kirkuk.
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And, while experts say masks do not necessarily stop you from catching the coronavirus, nearly every employee I saw as I flew Korean Air, VietJet, and Malaysia Air wore a surgical mask.
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"For me personally, I think I will be fine, I'm not so worried about it because everybody wearing masks," said David Zhang, a tourist from Shanghai, who was wearing a surgical mask.
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A man wearing a grayish jumpsuit, a sky-blue cap and a surgical mask, whom the Japanese news media identified as Mr. Ghosn, emerged from the detention center around 4:30 p.m.
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In the emergency room, Ms. Purnell sat in a blue chair in the former fast track area with a dozen other listless patients, one of whom was missing a surgical mask and coughing.
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In the emergency room, Ms. Purnell sat in a blue chair in the former fast track area with a dozen other listless patients, one of whom was missing a surgical mask and coughing.
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As coronavirus cases spiked in recent days, Prestige Ameritech, a Texas manufacturer that's the largest full-line domestic surgical mask manufacturer, was churning out 600,000 masks a day to try to meet demand.
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Whenever someone shows up at the hospital with these symptoms, Garibaldi said they're immediately given a surgical mask and usually sent to a negative pressure room that limits the airborne spread of the virus.
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Throughout, Michael appeared to endure the meteorological seesaw from 95-degree tropical heat to arctic indoor air-conditioning with equanimity, rarely shedding his heavy artillery coat, aviators, or delicately embroidered black-and-gold surgical mask.
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Although Vox reported that some are purchasing the masks in order to send them to friends and family overseas, where similar surgical mask shortages are going down, many people are purchasing them for protective reasons.
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One study from 2013 showed that both homemade masks and surgical masks "significantly reduced" the number of microorganisms expelled by participants, although the surgical mask was three times more effective in protecting the wearers themselves.
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They think the red angry bumps and pus pimples they usually see on adult women — almost universally in so-called surgical-mask distribution (the lower third of the face) — can be blamed on multiple things.
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A hygienist in a surgical mask barged into your mouth to poke and prod at your teeth and gums, and that was before they bust out the fucking polish, which tastes like sandy Trident gum.
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"People are worried," said Paolo Camia, a 55-year-old manager of a software company from Casalpusterlengo, who drove out of town in his blue surgical mask to take some pictures of the police checkpoints.
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In Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen told a packed news conference last week that he would kick out anyone who was wearing a surgical mask because such measures were creating an unwarranted climate of fear.
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A cursory search for a coronavirus mask or a surgical mask turns up lots of options, but they're either sold out and expected to be out of stock for weeks or they are exceptionally costly.
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A simple painter's mask or surgical mask will do in any kit, although more advanced models can filter out a wide variety of smaller particulates and last much longer before they need to be replaced.
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One common anti-vaccine conspiracy theory is that the people promoting vaccines are a small, shadowy, well-organized group, a kind of syringe-wielding, surgical mask-covered Deep State forcing their views on an unsuspecting public.
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And in Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen told a packed news conference on Thursday that he would kick out anyone who was wearing a surgical mask because such measures were creating an unwarranted climate of fear.
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Choi, wearing a grey prison uniform and a surgical mask, was brought in to the special prosecutor's office from a jail where she is in detention, pushed by a throng of correctional officers through a media scrum.
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But, when she was called in this week to assist with a patient showing flulike symptoms, she was told by management that a regular surgical mask was adequate protection — echoing the recent shift in the CDC's guidelines.
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Ukrainian authorities have arrested several suspects thought to have robbed a private surgical mask seller at gunpoint, stealing more than 100,000 masks, which are in shortages worldwide as people attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Footage of Potok on the WestJet flight, which was traveling from Toronto to Montego Bay, Jamaica, shows him wearing a surgical mask and informing other passengers that he recently traveled to Wuhan, China, where the outbreak started.
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Deft motorbike taxis, technicolor "tap-tap" pick-ups, and massive trucks transporting construction materials stir up enough dust on dry days to make a bandana surgical mask a valuable accessory on what will still be a doable ride.
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Throughout the video, which has no audio other than a background piano track, Xi wears a disposable surgical mask -- the type Chinese officials have been urging people to don in order to avoid further spread of the virus.
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For the next six weeks, Cooney would come to work at Ground Zero every day -- the ashes still smoldering behind him as he struggled to breathe through a surgical mask with his Glock 19 sidearm strapped to his waist.
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If the extradition bill passes, "they'll think you're a suspect and send you back to China," said Daniel Yeung, 21, a protester who stood atop a cement barrier wearing black clothing, a white surgical mask and green gardening gloves.
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In that regard, Mr. Trump may have gained at least a temporary ally in Mr. Xi. Mingling for the cameras with Beijing residents Monday, Mr. Xi, who sported a surgical mask, recommended they skip the customary form of greeting.
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When Tyler first cranked up his surround-sound speakers, I started having visuals…of my experience at Miami's Ultra festival in 2010, crammed between thousands of sweaty, underage kids dripping in Ecstasy, huffing Vicks VapoRub out of a surgical mask.
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I want the world to know that Carrie Lam has destroyed this city and Hong Kong police are acting like Chinese police, said Alexandra, dressed in a long, wavy black skirt and a white shirt and wearing a surgical mask.
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The government said people could apply for exemptions, but some are already built into the law: Doctors are allowed to wear a surgical mask that covers the lower half of the face, but not a veil that does the same thing.
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The nurse said she notified her superior more than a month ago and was told by senior staff to keep treating patients in the hospital while wearing a surgical mask, a directive that differs from the broader message to employees.
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Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, one of the airlines affected the most by the SARS outbreak, said it would allow flight attendants to wear a surgical mask while operating mainland China flights due to concerns over the new virus.
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The government has given no details so far on what has been found at the site, but after pacing muddy dirt trails wearing a surgical mask, Mexico's deputy interior minister, Alejandro Encinas, on Friday afternoon hinted that it would prove significant.
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Case #2: GennerNext, we're introduced to Genner, a man from the Philippines who covers half his face with a surgical mask — not because he's sick, or to protect against germs, but because he wants to hide the massive lump on his nose.
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He was whisked past a horde of journalists dressed in what lead defense lawyer Takashi Takano later said was a disguise - a blue cap, glasses, surgical mask and workman's outfit - and was taken away in a mini-van with a ladder on top.
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Ms. Laszlo was carrying a camera and wearing a surgical mask in September 2015 when she kicked two migrants and then awkwardly threw out her leg toward a man later identified as Osama Abdul Mohsen, a Syrian refugee, who was holding his child.
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It has been suggested by institutions such as the Mayo Clinic that when someone infected with a respiratory viral illness wears a surgical mask it protects others from getting infected because the masks catch the droplets and keep them from reaching other people.
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Wearing a surgical mask if you are not sick is counterintuitively unhelpful because it will cause you to touch your face and eyes more, and being untrained, you will remove it incorrectly, all of which will increase your risk of contracting COVID-19.
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While Musk seemed to say Tesla would try to send a shipment of them to Louisiana hospitals, he also seemed to be encouraging switching to a looser-fitting mask like a surgical mask, which does not protect healthy people from acquiring the illness.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed hospitals to ask any patients who have a fever or respiratory illness, have recently traveled to Wuhan, or have come in contact with someone who has traveled there, to wear a surgical mask.
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"The fact is, your typical surgical mask is not going to protect or prevent infection," Erin Sorrell, a Center for Global Health Science and Security member and assistant research professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, told BuzzFeed News.
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So, in Episode 7, when the sight of someone wearing a surgical mask at the game expo seems to bring on Ramon's screaming, trembling, possibly career-killing hallucination of a horde of masked, dust-covered people shuffling toward him like zombies, it fits the pattern.
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Brian SchatzBrian Emanuel SchatzTrump faces mounting pressure to unleash Defense Production Act Rand Paul's coronavirus diagnosis sends shockwaves through Senate Senators consider proxy voting during coronavirus outbreak MORE (D-Hawaii) tweeted that he was wearing a surgical mask out of an abundance of caution.
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Joe Fan, assistant hospital chief executive at the University of Hong Kong, says the paper mask can filter submicron particles about 80 to 90 percent as well as a surgical mask, but this data has not yet been published or replicated by other researchers.
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - In the courtyard of a jail that was shuttered last week, a man wearing a surgical mask and gloves used an underground scanner to search the earth for hidden graves in what was for decades one of Mexico's most violent prisons.
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But in the US, Chiu said, wearing a mask could give wearers a "false sense of security," he said: If concerned people wear a surgical mask, usually made out of thin fabric or paper, they may not continually wash their hands or fear contact with infected people.
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Rushing into a life-or-death operation and worrying only about the health of the mother, the surgical team hadn't thought they might need anything other than their regular kit, a substandard ensemble they fatalistically call "kamikaze": short-sleeved cotton scrubs, rubber apron, latex gloves, paper surgical mask, goggles, bonnet.
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Sitting in a cafe a stone's throw from the Royal Opera House in London, the opera singer Pretty Yende of South Africa whipped out her smartphone to show an Instagram photo of herself in a surgical mask during rehearsals for her London debut in the opera "L'Elisir d'Amore" in May.
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The woman who ordered the food was careful not to touch my hands when I passed her the bag The restaurant was barren, and there was a sign on the door that said, "Only to Go." A woman wearing a surgical mask pointed at the bag I was supposed to grab.
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It's been less than two weeks since the Chinese government quarantined 35 million people in the city of Wuhan and surrounding regions to control the fast-spreading coronavirus, but the images coming from there already have a grim familiarity: empty shops and streets, long queues at hospitals, and on every face, a surgical mask covering everything below the eyes.
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In an interview, one of the two surviving patients noted that during 40 years of practice he did not use a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health–certified respirator while polishing dental appliances, preparing amalgams and impressions, or developing X-rays using film-developing solutions, according to the report, although he did use a surgical mask during the last 20 years of practice.
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