{"id":26065,"date":"2020-12-23T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:41:52","slug":"cloth-masks-are-not-enough-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-without-social-distancing-because-they-let-in-enough-droplets-to-infect-someone-standing-less-than-six-feet-away-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/23\/cloth-masks-are-not-enough-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-without-social-distancing-because-they-let-in-enough-droplets-to-infect-someone-standing-less-than-six-feet-away-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloth masks are NOT enough to stop the spread of COVID-19 without social distancing because they let in enough droplets to infect someone standing less than six feet away"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24019\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-galore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wearing a cloth mask is not enough to prevent the spread of the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-5568ccc0-44ab-11eb-ace2-c98df7c3f8cd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a> without practicing social distancing, a new study suggests.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-9080597\/Cloth-masks-NOT-stop-spread-COVID-19-without-social-distancing.html\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Wearing a cloth mask is not enough to prevent the spread of the\u00a0coronavirus without practicing social distancing, a new study suggests.\u00a0 \u00a0Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-galore.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26069,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions\/26069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}