These findings suggest that mask use might pose a yet unknown threat to the user instead of protecting them, making mask mandates a debatable epidemiologic intervention.
The cause of this trend is explained herein using the “Foegen effect” theory; that is, deep re-inhalation of hypercondensed droplets or pure virions caught in facemasks as droplets can worsen prognosis and might be linked to long-term effects of COVID-19 infection. While the “Foegen effect” is proven in vivo in an animal model, further research is needed to fully understand it.
And the fact that we touch our faces (eyes, mouth, nose) much more often while wearing them - and guess how viruses enter our body - through the mucus membranes of our eyes, nose and mouth.
And the fact that we touch our faces (eyes, mouth, nose) much more often while wearing them - and guess how viruses enter our body - through the mucus membranes of our eyes, nose and mouth.
I’ve been saying this since day 1!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220620181100/https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/The_Foegen_effect__A_mechanism_by_which_facemasks.60.aspx
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