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Why the health officials don't want you to wear N95 masks?

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Why the Government doesn't want you to wear N95 masks? The Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Health Ministry, Dr Rajiv Garg, said that N95 masks with valved respirators do not prevent the virus from spreading out and are “detrimental” to the measures adopted for its containment. “It is to bring to your knowledge that the use of valved respirator N-95 masks is detrimental to the measures adopted for preventing the spread of coronavirus  as it does not prevent the virus from escaping out of the mask,” Garg wrote in the letter . Now, what does that mean? let's start this blog to understand why DGHS gave this statement in a question-answer form: What are N95 masks? What's the difference between an ordinary surgical mask and an N95 mask?  Is the N95 mask more effective than ordinary surgical masks? Are the masks recyclable? Why did DGHS suggest common citizens to avoid wearing N95 masks?  So let's start, 1. What are N95 masks? I am not a medic guy or a tec...

when will corona end

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So many people are constantly asking the experts who have studied and have faced similar situations in the past that when will corona virus end? In 1 month or 1 year or 2 year? Honestly no one knows when will it end. Because of its highly contagious nature it is spreading like fire and everyday there are ten thousands of people are getting infected and out of them some unfortunate lives are lost. So what really is the answer then? I'm not being a medical professional or infectious disease expert just wanted to share my opinion and thoughts about how this pandemic would come to an end.  So The answer to the question of when will corona virus pandemic will end is divided into two parts : CASE 1: WE DEVELOP A VACCINE . So consider a case wherein we successfully develop a vaccine which cures or at least reduces the risk of dieing from this COVID-19 virus. But even if we consider that a vaccine is developed today i.e. July 2020 it would still take many years to p...