SHS graduate honored by university
By Ceili Cornelius Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:42 PM Michaela (Miller) Tucker earned special honors from her university prior to entering an intensive nursing program.
photo provided Michaela Tucker (formerly Miller) graduated from Sisters High School in 2016. Since then, she has completed her Bachelor of Health Science’s Degree at California Baptist University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in the spring of 2020, not only with a health science degree, but also an Outstanding Student Award recognition.
California Baptist University awards this outstanding student based on GPA, as well as involvement in the university and community and, as a Christian university, demonstrating Christ-like principles. Tucker received the award at the end of her tenure at university this past spring.
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Updated Dec 21, 2020 | 07:15 IST
Wearing face masks has been one of the key preventive measures for COVID-19. Researchers suggest that using used face masks is even worse than not wearing one at all. Something is not better than nothing - Used face masks to prevent COVID-19 worse than not using one at all | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Key Highlights
Masks have been touted as an important prevention method against COVID-19
A new study has found that wearing used face masks over and over again does little to prevent infection
The study suggests that wearing a used mask may be even worse than not wearing one at all
Why wearing a mask may sometimes be riskier than wearing none
Why wearing a mask may sometimes be riskier than wearing none
Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:31 IST
A joint study by researchers from the University of Massachusetts and the California Baptist University, published in
Physics of Fluids, the journal of
the American Institute of Physics, using
air flow models has concluded “that wearing
masks with very low filtration efficiencies.can do more harm than protection”.
While the study acknowledges that “wearing a mask reduces particle penetration into the lungs”, wearing a
used mask could prove to be riskier than wearing no mask at all as the
Covid-19: Study suggests no masks better than old masks; not all masks provide same protection
December 19, 2020
× A team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and California Baptist University carried out a study to explain that not all masks protect the same from Covid-19 transmission.
They stated in their study, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, old masks may be worse than not wearing a mask at all.
These findings will likely influence the guidance on mask-wearing and potentially mask design, the researchers speculated.
For the study, the team created a computational face mask model to predict how masks impact the inhalation and deposition of airborne particles in the upper respiratory tract.