The Centers for Disease Control has a new recommendation for Americans to wear face masks as the SARS-COV-2 pandemic continues to spread across the nation.
- One professor has made an easy how-to video on how to create your own.
- Jeremy Howard — a researcher at the University of San Francisco — released a new video where he shows how to make a mask using household items. No sewing machine required, The Guardian reports.
How to make your mask
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Howard, the co-founder of Masks 4 All, advises interested parties do the following:
- Grab a T-shirt you don’t mind destroying. Outline the pattern of the mask. The bottom line should be where your armpits are.
- Cut the lines through both sides.
- Put a safety pin at the bottom. Put a paper towel between two layers of the mask.
- Secure the mask around the front of your face.
- Tie top straps around the back of your head and the bottom around the top of your head.
What public health experts say about masks
- According to the Deseret News, public health experts were quiet about wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic until about late March. Now, they’ve changed their tune.
- But some health experts still advise against people owning medical masks since those should be reserved for health service workers and patients.