The chances of catching coronavirus can increase by wearing a face mask incorrectly, a specialist professor has claimed. Eli Perencevich, an infection prevention specialist, most people inadvertently wear them wrong and auto-contaminate themselves.
In a Twitter post the professor said: "Masks won’t protect the average person. "Because they will wear them incorrectly and autocontaminate themselves. "I’ve never seen a person practice hand hygiene before removing a mask in public and then after removing the mask." Mr Perencevich, who is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine also told Forbes magazine that the average healthy person does not need to have a mask, and they shouldn’t be wearing
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