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Can you repeat that? Why COVID-19 face masks make it so hard to hear Different mask materials impact speech more than others. The best ones, Wilson said, are the disposable medical masks (blue masks) Dec 29, 2020 5:00 PM By: Yona Harvey When Renfrew resident Christina Edgar visited the emergency department a few weeks ago, the doctor asked questions, but Edgar couldn’t understand a word. “The doctor was impossible to understand through her mask and face shield,” she said, so the doctor finally wrote questions on a piece of paper. At 101 years of age, Edgar confided that before the pandemic, when people didn’t wear masks, she could hear very well with a hearing aid. Now, even after turning the volume up on her hearing device, she said masked people’s voices are “indistinct.”

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