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https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/shields-compared-to-masks.html

Some Experts Say Face Shields Better Than Masks for Coronavirus Protection

2020-06-15 00:00:00, Renée Bacher and Christina Ianzito, AARP

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488

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3.25 min

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Intermediate

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11th or 12th

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Lauren Lek, head of school at Academy of Our Lady of Peace, in San Diego, plans to have her 750 returning faculty and students wear face shields at school rather than masks this August.

"As soon as we saw from the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and our local public health office that face shields would be an acceptable alternative to face masks, we knew this was a direction we wanted to move in."

The school has purchased more than 10 different types of face shields to test before classes restart, Lek says, with each posing challenges in terms of clarity, fogging, ease of cleaning and reuse.

Hope Taitz, an investment manager in New York City who travels frequently for business, began wearing a face mask and face shield together when she saw the pandemic starting to unfold while logging 100,000 miles of travel in January and February.

Kristi Carnahan, a registered nurse in the Emergency Department at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California, says she also wears a mask beneath her plastic face shield to provide more "protection against anything in the air getting into your mouth or nose as you breathe."

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