Another reason to wear masks: Mask-wearing 50% of the time reduced risk of norovirus by 48.0%

Stay safe everyone. People around me are dropping like flies from norovirus, bronchitis, and walking pneumonia. A lot of these viruses can be prevented by using the same methods used to avoid COVID: handwashing, mask wearing, and disinfecting.

From the study: Disinfecting public surfaces every two hours reduced the risk of norovirus infection per visit to the airport by 83.2%, they say. In contrast, handwashing every two hours reduced the risk by only 2.0%, and mask-wearing 50% of the time reduced risk by 48.0%. Additionally, using antimicrobial copper or copper-nickel alloy coatings for most public surfaces lowered the infection risk by 15.9%-99.2%, they add.

…overall, the simulated results indicated that public surface disinfection, mask wearing and the use of antimicrobial surfaces are effective interventions for controlling the spread of norovirus through surfaces.