The Big Q: Do Silver and Gold Face Masks Even Work?
The CDC recommends all Americans wear face masks to help prevent the spread of covid-19. Covid-19 spreads mainly from person to person via respiratory droplets, which are produced when people cough, sneeze, shout, talk, or sing. Face masks help prevent your respiratory droplets from reaching others. Now to the big question, would these solid gold and silver masks even work? Dr. Chin-Hong said maybe, but that it’s hard to know without testing.
“There’s no scientific evidence that [they work]. I’m just worried that it may be potentially increasing the risk on one extreme, which is you’re manipulating your face more because it’s not really designed to breathe through easily, [although] it depends on how they make it… I’d be nervous about that aspect,” he said.
