{"id":154053,"date":"2020-02-17T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=154053"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:14:18","slug":"can-masks-protect-against-the-new-coronavirus-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/can-masks-protect-against-the-new-coronavirus-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Masks Protect against the New Coronavirus Infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/World-Health-Organization-WHO-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/World-Health-Organization-WHO-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><em>Wearing a medical mask can help limit the spread of some respiratory diseases. However, using a mask alone is not guaranteed to stop infections. Their use should be combined with other preventive measures. Watch this short video to find out more. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>For more information, please visit: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;v=Ded_AxFfJoQ&amp;redir_token=_MFwBqshECeETWnPilTkOdQsvdN8MTU4MTc2MzExOUAxNTgxNjc2NzE5&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Femergencies%2Fdiseases%2Fnovel-coronavirus-2019\" >https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disea&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ded_AxFfJoQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a medical mask can help limit the spread of some respiratory diseases. However, using a mask alone is not guaranteed to stop infections. Their use should be combined with other preventive measures. Watch this short video to find out more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,52,136,47],"tags":[239,244,1829,1698,710,1102,304,1447,124,1836],"class_list":["post-154053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics","category-health","category-publicservice","category-short-video-clips","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-epidemics","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-science","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-united-nations","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}