FaceShield: Curved sheets of clear plastic that cover the entire face

Three University of Iowa infectious-disease doctors and hospital epidemiologists recently suggested in a Journal of the American Medical Association article, that face shield may be a better option than masks for the general public in community settings, and some of their peers agree with them. For example, Ravina Kullar, a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and an infectious-disease consultant to Los Angeles nursing homes, recently bought a face shield for forays into her Santa Monica neighborhood. “I would say a face shield alone is better than a face mask,” she said, referring to people who are not in health-care settings. “You don’t need both.”

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