BREAKING Employees in Los Angeles County will be required to wear medical-grade masks while working indoors near others, new health order says
Employers will be required to provide the masks, and employees will be required to wear them, according to the order.amid a staggering increase in COVID-19 infections as the highly-contagious omicron variant continues to spread rapidly.
Under the new order issued Wednesday, employers must start providing employees who work indoors next to others"with well-fitting medical grade masks, surgical masks, or higher-level respirators, such as N95 or KN95 masks." "These upgraded masks are better at blocking virus particles from going through the mask," the county order states.by researchers at Yale University, Stanford University and others found that villages in Bangladesh where surgical masks were worn had 11% fewer cases of COVID than in villages where no masks were worn. In villages that wore cloth masks, infections were reduced by only 5%.
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