While two sitting MLAs have been denied tickets, the party selected industries minister Chandra Mohan Patowary to represent Dharmapur again. Union defence minister Rajnath Singh also addressed three poll rallies in Assam. Share Via. By Utpal Parashar , Guwahati.
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This could be a parent, other relative, teacher, coach, or school counselor. The person might need professional help to stop using drugs. Both wore a double-layered cotton face covering or surgical mask while working.
And although they passed on the infection to members of their households, their clients seem to have been spared more than half reportedly declined free tests. Other hints of effectiveness emerged from mass gatherings.
The events did not seem to trigger spikes in infections 2 , yet the virus ran rampant in late June at a Georgia summer camp, where children who attended were not required to wear face coverings 3. Caveats abound: the protests were outdoors, which poses a lower risk of COVID spread, whereas the campers shared cabins at night, for example.
And because many non-protesters stayed in their homes during the gatherings, that might have reduced virus transmission in the community. More-rigorous analyses added direct evidence. A preprint study 4 posted in early August and not yet peer reviewed , found that weekly increases in per-capita mortality were four times lower in places where masks were the norm or recommended by the government, compared with other regions.
Another study 5 looked at the effects of US state-government mandates for mask use in April and May. Researchers estimated that those reduced the growth of COVID cases by up to 2 percentage points per day. They cautiously suggest that mandates might have averted as many as , cases, after controlling for other mitigation measures, such as physical distancing.
But such studies do rely on assumptions that mask mandates are being enforced and that people are wearing them correctly. Furthermore, mask use often coincides with other changes, such as limits on gatherings.
As restrictions lift, further observational studies might begin to separate the impact of masks from those of other interventions, suggests Grabowski. Researchers led by microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen at the University of Hong Kong housed infected and healthy hamsters in adjoining cages, with surgical-mask partitions separating some of the animals.
The findings provide justification for the emerging consensus that mask use protects the wearer as well as other people. COVID has killed more than one million people.
How many more will die? Gandhi co-authored a paper 8 published in late July suggesting that masking reduces the dose of virus a wearer might receive, resulting in infections that are milder or even asymptomatic.
A larger viral dose results in a more aggressive inflammatory response, she suggests. She and her colleagues are currently analysing hospitalization rates for COVID before and after mask mandates in 1, US counties, to determine whether the severity of disease decreased after public masking guidelines were brought in.
Gandhi suggests another possible benefit: if more people get mild cases, that might help to enhance immunity at the population level without increasing the burden of severe illness and death. The masks debate is closely linked to another divisive question: how does the virus travel through the air and spread infection? The moment a person breathes or talks, sneezes or coughs, a fine spray of liquid particles takes flight.
Some are large — visible, even — and referred to as droplets; others are microscopic, and categorized as aerosols. But gravity quickly pulls them down. Aerosols, by contrast, can float in the air for minutes to hours, spreading through an unventilated room like cigarette smoke.
Time-lapse images show how cough droplets spread from a person wearing an N95 mask that has a valve to expel exhaled air. Credit: S. Verma et al. The virus itself is only about 0.
More relevant are the pathogen-transporting droplets and aerosols, which range from about 0. By this reasoning, aerosols could prove to be the most important transmission vehicle. So, it is worth looking at which masks can stop aerosols. Multiple layers of fabric, she adds, are more effective, and the tighter the weave, the better. Another study 10 found that masks with layers of different materials — such as cotton and silk — could catch aerosols more efficiently than those made from a single material.
Just take the person aside and explain why what they said is a problem. Another good option is just not to engage with sexist behaviour. Make your position clear by not laughing, high-fiving or otherwise encouraging sexist comments.
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