Experiment tests effectiveness of mask use

The Petri dishes sat in an incubator for 48 hours.

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Wearing a face mask has been debated*heavily over the months..

As many question how effective they really are.

Kezi 9 news reporter kennedy dendy went to a lab on monday to run her*own experiment, and tonight we have the results.

< dr: "we're back 48 hours later after coughing on the plates at the riverbend microbiology lab."

On monday, i conducted a simple experiment at the lab to find out how germs can cling to respiratory droplets both with and*without wearing a mask..*nats coughing today... we took the dishes out of the incubator to see what developed.

Dr: "this is a plate of growth media.

This was wearing a paper mask.

This is wearing a cloth mask."

Wipe dr: "when she coughed but didn't have a mask on, you can see the white blobs there that's the bacteria that came out of return when she coughed."

If you look closely, those dots*show us how the germs*escaped when i coughed.

But here's a real world example that dr. pelz shared with me.

Dr: "a gentleman early in the covid epidemic who flew from china all the way to toronto probably 15-20 hour flight had covid at the time, didn't know it, was coughing the whole way across the continent, but because he had a mask on, nobody else on the plant got infected."

A manager at the riverbend annex lab also conducted the experiment, in a slightly different manner..

And here are*her results... coming up in the six o clock hour, find out what else you need to know about how to protect those around you from becoming infected by any type of virus.

Reporting in springfield, kennedy dendy kezi