Evidence-Informed Cloth Masks

Barb Round reflects on a year in making masks, improving masks, and getting involved in improving the efficiency of masks....

Joan Fearnley of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange and MakerMask, and Jocelyn Songer of MakerMask, write in detail about the science of...

A mask containing a layer of polypropylene will have a structure that can help keep it off the face but maintain contact at the edges....

Charles de Lannoy and Catherine Clase of the McMaster Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (CEPEM) talked to Maria...

In December 2020, Joan Fearnley along with Charles de Lannoy and Catherine Clase from the McMaster Centre of Excellence in Protective...

Barb Round is a member of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange, a stakeholder group affiliated with the McMaster Centre of Excellence in...

Our new page on Mask Fit summarizes peer-reviewed evidence on improving mask fit, and integrates the new research, which found that...

Trish Greenhalgh explains why to wear a mask while exercising outside, if you can't keep well away from other pedestrians....

Wency Leung, writing in the Globe and Mail, has an explainer on PHAC's advice and how to use masks most effectively....

New variants are more transmissible and some European countries are recommending the use of certified masks in the community. Christine...

Ravi Selvaganapathy, leader of McMaster's Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials, writes in The Conversation about...

https://theconversation.com/polypropylene-the-material-now-recommended-for-covid-19-mask-filters-what-it-is-where-to-get-it-149613 How...

"Return to normalcy will require the widespread acceptance and adoption of mask wearing and other inexpensive and effective interventions...

In this video, Catherine Clase and Edouard Fu discuss the body of evidence on cloth masks and explain where the 2 to 4 layer cotton...

Thanks to Augusto Cesar Santos Jr @acssjr, Fernanda Arce-Amare @FerArceAmare and Rolando Claure of the ISN social media committee for...

We now have studies showing the effects of mask mandates on growth of the pandemic in the US and in Germany; the Institute for Health...

Le port du masque permet de minimiser la propagation du virus transmis par les voies respiratoires. Bien qu’imparfaits, la généralisation...

Here is a link to our peer-reviewed summary of the literature on the filtration properties of cloth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020...

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-masks-faqs-how-can-cloth-stop-a-tiny-virus-whats-the-best-fabric-do-they-protect-the-wearer-146822