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  2. Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    US Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Kim accompanied by local officials at the Presidential Palace wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks or coverings, including N95, FFP2, surgical, and cloth masks, have been employed as public and personal health control measures against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

  3. Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    A public service announcement from the Government of California encouraging people to wear masks to "slow the spread". In late March 2020, some government officials began to focus on the wearing of masks to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 as opposed to protecting the wearer; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated in a report that face masks would be "most effective" at slowing its ...

  4. Facial mask - Wikipedia

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    Facial masks often contain minerals, vitamins, and fruit extracts, such as cactus and cucumber. A sheet mask is a piece of paper, cellulose or fabric used to apply a facial mask. The first facial mask was invented in Ohio, United States, during the 19th century by Madame Rowley. It was called the "Toilet Mask" or the first "face glove", and was ...

  5. After years of fights over mask mandates, why do some ... - AOL

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    Masks allow criminals and bigots to avoid punishment for their actions “Disruptive protesters wear masks for the same reasons the members of the Ku Klux Klan wore them in the past — to avoid ...

  6. History in the making as Czech museum opens face mask ... - AOL

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    In a sign that the coronavirus will one day be history, the Czech National Museum is opening an exhibition of face masks worn to protect against the infection. The Czech government was one of the ...

  7. Mask - Wikipedia

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    The so-called 'Mask of Agamemnon', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae, Greece, National Archaeological Museum, Athens The word "mask" appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque "covering to hide or guard the face", derived in turn from Italian maschera, from Medieval Latin masca "mask, specter, nightmare". [1]

  8. Disposable masks can take up to 450 years to decompose ... - AOL

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    Just a single face mask, according to a study in Environmental Advances, can release as many as 173,000 microfibers per day into the seas. And a recent National Geographic report cites a far ...

  9. Face mask - Wikipedia

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    Face mask (gridiron football), in sports A mask for the face, typically used in rituals, performance art and as a disguise mostly during the Halloween holiday. Face mask (We people) , a West African wooden mask at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, US