Coronavirus: Face masks reduce severity of symptoms in wearer, scientists find - The Independent

Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, says people wearing masks will take in fewer coronavirus particles, making it easier for their immune systems to cope.

But when some people wear masks, the proportion of asymptomatic cases seems to skyrocket, reportedly surpassing 90 per cent during one outbreak at a seafood plant in Oregon.

They housed coronavirus-infected and healthy animals in adjoining cages, some of which were separated by partitions made of surgical masks.

But on another vessel that left Argentina in March, and on which all passengers were issued surgical masks after someone on board came down with a fever, the level of symptomatic cases was below 20 per cent?

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