{"id":27744,"date":"2021-03-05T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=27744"},"modified":"2021-03-06T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:48:12","slug":"why-wearing-two-face-coverings-may-be-pointless-double-masking-is-only-slightly-better-at-stopping-the-spread-of-covid-particles-than-relying-on-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/why-wearing-two-face-coverings-may-be-pointless-double-masking-is-only-slightly-better-at-stopping-the-spread-of-covid-particles-than-relying-on-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Why wearing two face coverings may be pointless: Double-masking &#8216;is only slightly better at stopping the spread of Covid particles than relying on one&#8217;"},"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-medium wp-image-27745\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/double-masking-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/double-masking-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/double-masking-500x301.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/double-masking-360x217.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/double-masking.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Double-masking is only slightly better at stopping the spread of coronavirus than wearing one face covering, a study has suggested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9328747\/Japan-supercomputer-shows-doubling-masks-offers-little-help-preventing-viral-spread.html\">Read 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>Double-masking is only slightly better at stopping the spread of coronavirus than wearing one face covering, a study has suggested. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27744","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\/2021\/03\/double-masking.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27744","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=27744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27746,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27744\/revisions\/27746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}