Term:Face mask
Related terms
- protects against SARS-CoV-2
Normative
Variants and synonyms
- mask
- face covering
Examples
Accumulating evidence supports recommending that people who have recovered from laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 do not need additional travel-related testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection or travel-related self-isolation or quarantine at least within the first 180 days of the first positive NAAT test, provided that non-pharmaceutical interventions such as physical distancing, the wearing of face masks and hand and respiratory hygiene are maintained.
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32021H0961
When scarcity is not an issue, use of a fitted respirator use of a fitted respirator mask is a reasonable option.
Source: https://www.sccm.org/getattachment/Disaster/SSC-COVID19-Critical-Care-Guidelines.pdf
The use of medical masks, as opposed to N95 respirators, did not increase laboratory-confirmed respiratory infection (OR 1.06, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.25).
Source: https://www.sccm.org/getattachment/Disaster/SSC-COVID19-Critical-Care-Guidelines.pdf
When consistent distancing is not possible, face coverings may further reduce the spread of infectious droplets from individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection to others.
Source: https://files.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/guidelines/covid19treatmentguidelines.pdf
Collocations
- medical mask
- surgical mask
- masks and/or respirators
- respirator mask
Keyness
- face mask: >1000
- medical mask: 198
- surgical mask: 508
- respirator mask: 599
- fitted respirator mask: 982
- mask: >1000
Note
Most examples of "face mask" refer to oxygen face mask.
Research
Definition/description
As a result, a face mask works by providing a physical barrier against the potentially infectious droplets.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350612003411?via%3Dihub
Examples
The staff members who conducted the dialysis treatments wore face shields, N95 face masks , eye shields, disposable gowns, caps, and gloves.
Source: https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(20)30612-0/fulltext
At the individual level, surgical face masks have often been a particularly visible image from affected cities in China.
Source: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.6.2000110
Participants frequently attempted to compensate for their negative attitudes by suggesting 'easier' behaviours such as the use of antibacterial gel, gloves or face masks.
Source: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-9-258
In this retrospective cohort study, 73 patients were studied and all of them were ventilated with a face mask.
Source: https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/cc8514
Collocations
- use face mask
- wear face mask
- surgical face mask
- filtering face mask
- ventilation through/with face mask
Keyness
>1000
Note
“Face mask” in this corpus means both “surgical face mask” and “oxygen mask” used for ventilation (see the last example).
Press
Variants and synonyms
- face covering
- mask
Examples
Face masks and coverings are mandatory in all public places, both indoors and outdoors.
Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/united-states-europe-paris-jean-castex-eiffel-tower-b925236.html
Collocations
- to wear a face mask
- to wear a mask
- madatory face masks
- mask mandate
- mask use
- mask wearing
Keyness
- face mask: 23
- face covering: 78
- mask: 119
Comments
Variants and synonyms
- face nappy
- face covering
Description
Good to see face nappies driving down the cases as usual.
Where customers refuse to wear a face covering on your shop premises and they dont have an exemption, you are entitled to refuse the customer entry or ask them to leave the premises if you choose to take this action.
Examples
Many people record passengers wearing their face mask around their chin.
Source: nytimes.com
Today all the sheeple were wearing their face nappies in the shops where I live and it's made me realise just how weak and spineless the British have become.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
We must lock down, wear face coverings even outdoors, close all shops except essential supermarkets and have a 7pm curfew.
Collocations
- to wear a face mask/face nappy/face covering
Keyness
- face mask: 116
- face nappy: 165
- face covering: 434