Experiments with hamsters show effectiveness of masks in staving off infection

By THE NATION

 

 

Wearing medical masks can protect people from Covid-19 infection at least 75 per cent of the time, according to an experiment by a Hong Kong microbiologist, Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a Thai respiratory disease specialist, informed through his fanpage on Saturday (May 23).

 

 

The doctor explained that Yuen Kwok-yung's experiment separated infected hamsters from healthy hamsters in two cages. The cage of the infected one was placed in the windward direction, while another one was in a direction that received air from the infected cage.

 

The experiment with the two cages observed three scenarios: first, they allowed the wind from the infected cage to blow to the other cage with no obstruction; second, they obstructed between the two cages by surgical masks, and, third, they obstructed the cage of infected hamsters by using the masks.

 

The experiment tried to recreate real life situations where Covid-19 infected persons live with healthy persons and all of them do not wear the mask, a situation when infected persons wear medical masks, and a situation when healthy persons wear medical masks.

 

This experiment over one week showed that in the first case, without masks 66 per cent of healthy hamsters were infected with Covid-19 from the infected ones. In the second case, 33 per cent of healthy hamsters were infected. In the third case, only 16.7 per cent of the healthy hamsters were infected.

 

Dr Manoon concluded that wearing medical masks amidst infected people reduced chances of infection by around 50 per cent, while wearing masks amongst healthy persons will decrease chances of infection by 75 per cent.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30388376

 

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But not social distancing? ????

Edited May 23, 20206 yr by Tarteso

Wonder how many hamsters wore filthy old masks for a month without changing them?

1 minute ago, Canuck1966 said:

Wonder how many hamsters wore filthy old masks for a month without changing them?

Just now, tonray said:

That looks nice and clean. I'm amazed they didn't try to take them off with their paws

In a related story : If you hold a hamster up by its tail it will die.

8 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

In a related story : If you hold a hamster up by its tail it will die.

Me too after a night on Thai Whisky.

25 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Yuen Kwok-yung's experiment

sounds like something a group of 12 year olds would do in a Biology class at school.

 

And this is 'news'

11 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

In a related story : If you hold a hamster up by its tail it will die.

Wonder how many died to provide data for this senseless experiment?

54 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

sounds like something a group of 12 year olds would do in a Biology class at school.

 

And this is 'news'

It would be for the WHO, all of Europe and the US.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Experiments with hamsters show effectiveness of masks in staving off infection

Was this organised by Richard Gere?

I have just sent my design off to a mask maker.  Should be doubly safe:

 

 

 

2 hours ago, OneeyedJohn said:

sounds like something a group of 12 year olds would do in a Biology class at school.

 

And this is 'news'

 

Any self-respecting hamster would gnaw through the mask in five minutes anyway.

To have gained a more relevant result from their experiment they should've placed Anutin in the downwind cage.

Rodents can carry and transmit Covid 19 now? So the rats could spread it like the plague in the city! 

To verify this, I put a mask on my pet hampster. When I returned to his cage five minutes later he had converted the mask into a hammock and was sound asleep! Fail!

I'm glad this story was posted. Not rocket science but science nonetheless. Yes hamsters can contract and spread the virus. I can only assume that all the jokers here are those who believe that masks have no effect against Covid transmission. 

If you want protection from covid, or any flu for that matter, attend to your immune system. For those that have no comprehension of human microbiology and the amazing ways in which it functions then get a mask.

because vit D (sun), vit C (fresh fruit), zink (meat) is too much to ask and to avoid sugar, right...

1 hour ago, Rancid said:

If you want protection from covid, or any flu for that matter, attend to your immune system. For those that have no comprehension of human microbiology and the amazing ways in which it functions then get a mask.

Anything that helps stop transmission helps the cause and that includes masks. Easy enough to comprehend.

You could double your protection with one of these ????

 

what does it proove:

the news for the masses are at kindergarten-level.

"informed through his fanpage on Saturday"

why not have his findings at The Lancet" ?

because these kind of "research " is kindergartenlevel and is no science.

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Experiments with hamsters show effectiveness of masks in staving off

Freddie Starr .?

When was the last time you saw a hamster cough???

55 minutes ago, rucker4012 said:

When was the last time you saw a hamster cough???

It was the day after I saw an elephant fly.

CDC: The coronavirus 'does not spread easily' from contaminated surfaces

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cdc-coronavirus-does-not-spread-144200632.html

Hopefully they'll do a similar collegiate experiment regarding prophylactics. The ones sold at 7/11 ought to fit the hamsters as is. ????

I've  been wearing a hamster for over a month now and I  haven't caught covid 19

12 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Rodents can carry and transmit Covid 19 now? So the rats could spread it like the plague in the city! 

Stay away from the beach in Pattaya  then!!