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: Received: 2 March 2023 / Approved: 3 March 2023 / Online: 3 March 2023 (10:22:56 CET)
How to cite:
Spennemann, D.H. Memories of COVID-19: The Types of Fitted Face Masks Between Public Health Advice and Personal Choice. Preprints2023, 2023030071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0071.v1.
Spennemann, D.H. Memories of COVID-19: The Types of Fitted Face Masks Between Public Health Advice and Personal Choice. Preprints 2023, 2023030071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0071.v1.
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Spennemann, D.H. Memories of COVID-19: The Types of Fitted Face Masks Between Public Health Advice and Personal Choice. Preprints2023, 2023030071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0071.v1.
Spennemann, D.H. Memories of COVID-19: The Types of Fitted Face Masks Between Public Health Advice and Personal Choice. Preprints 2023, 2023030071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0071.v1.
Abstract
As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to abate and national public health systems are treating the SARS-Cov-2 virus as endemic, many public health measures are no longer mandated, but remain recommended with voluntary participation. One of these is the wearing of fitted face masks, initially mandated to contain, or at least slow, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 which is primarily transmitted via aerosols emitted while breathing, coughing, or sneezing. While the habit of once wearing fitted face masks recedes into memory for much of the population, so does the knowledge of the various types of masks that were once en vogue. To create a record for the future, this paper provides the first comprehensive documentation of the nature and range of fitted facemasks that circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords
COVID-19; fitted face masks; museum collections; personal protective equipment; public health measures
Subject
SOCIAL SCIENCES, Other
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
