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by en-us 2268 days ago
I think it is about filtering. Even simple cotton t-shirt cloth is about 50% effective at filtering 23nm microbes. Definitely not good enough to give to a healthcare worker in a high exposure environment, but also definitely good enough to flatten the curve when used at a population level.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...