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Google Doodle honors inventor of the surgical mask, considered to be the precursor of N95 masks Happy birthday to the man behind the mask: Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr. Wu Lien-teh ���� Did you know? To combat the Manchurian plague of 1910-1911, Wu invented a mask considered the predecessor to the modern-day N95.#GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/A8TbLBehmPpic.twitter.com/XaX2dpkRdP— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) March 10, 2021 The N95 respirator--a scientific icon born from plague, racism, and repurposed gift bows https://t.co/qvyh1gYsID— Mark Wilson (@ctrlzee) March 24, 202...

Who Was Dr. Wu Lien-teh? Google Doodle Celebrates Surgical Face Mask Pioneer On 3/10/21 at 4:51 AM EST Dr. Wu Lien-teh is celebrated in today's Google Doodle on what would have been his 142nd birthday. The Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist invented a surgical face covering that is considered the precursor to the N95 mask, which is widely used today to combat the spread of COVID-19. Wu was born on this day in 1879, to a family of Chinese immigrants in Penang, Malaya, which is modern-day Malaysia. Wu became the first student of Chinese descent to earn his MD from Cambridge University before join...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 2021 (IPS) - Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Lockdowns necessary? Although most East Asian economies have successfully contained the pandemic without nationwide ‘stay in shelter lockdowns’, many governments ...

COVID-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since th...

KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.