{"id":32957,"date":"2021-12-07T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=32957"},"modified":"2021-12-07T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:03:37","slug":"wearing-a-mask-is-better-than-social-distancing-in-every-scenario-risk-of-catching-covid-is-up-to-225-times-lower-for-people-donning-coverings-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/07\/wearing-a-mask-is-better-than-social-distancing-in-every-scenario-risk-of-catching-covid-is-up-to-225-times-lower-for-people-donning-coverings-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing a mask is better than social distancing in EVERY scenario: Risk of catching Covid is up to 225 TIMES lower for people donning coverings, study finds"},"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-24756\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-770x772.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-500x501.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask-360x361.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mask.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wearing a face mask \u2014 regardless of how flimsy or tight-fitting it is \u2014 is better than social distancing at preventing you from catching Covid, a study suggests.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10283911\/Wearing-mask-better-social-distancing-scenario-study-finds.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>Wearing a face mask \u2014 regardless of how flimsy or tight-fitting it is \u2014 is better than social distancing at preventing you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32957","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\/09\/mask.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957","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=32957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32958,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32957\/revisions\/32958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}