Frag Out! Magazine
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TRUE MYTH TRUE MYTH Quarantine is used solely in the case of persons suffering from the disease. Not only are the persons suffering from the disease quarantined. First and foremost, persons who could potentially get in contact with someone infected are quarantined. In this way, the risk is minimized that a person as such could infect anybody else if that person is infected. Healthy persons could also be subjected to qu- arantine, for observation purposes. Wearing surgical protective facemasks prevents SARS-CoV-2 infections. It is not recommended that lightweight, single-use surgical face-masks are used, especially over longer periods. As these are not a tight fit and they have a high degree of porosity, there is a chance that droplets carrying SARS-CoV-2 enter one's nose, mouth, or eyes. Furthermore, people with the virus on their hands, touching their faces under the masks, could be infected. Persons infected can wear masks to minimize the risk of infecting other people. One should re- member that buying the masks ourselves limits the availability of these for the patients and for the healthcare workers that could need them. TRUE MYTH There is no vaccine protecting from SARS-CoV-2 This is true. No vaccine is available for the humans that could pro- tect one from the infections caused by the new coronavirus. Se- veral research laboratories are involved in work on the vaccine, but before the vaccine is available on the market, a couple or even several months could pass by. ANALYSIS