8) “Surgeons wear masks”

8) “Surgeons wear masks”

Surgeons wear masks, so they must be effective, right?

This was another notion contributing to the face mask misunderstanding.

In reality, surgeons wear masks not against viruses, but against much larger bacteria, but more importantly, studies have long shown that even surgeons’ masks make no difference in terms of bacterial wound infections.

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