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JULIA: Thank you so much for answering that question. Now, let’s delve into the actual questions that community members submitted to us regarding COVID. My first questions are about wearing a mask. One of the community members asked “How should I wear a mask? And how long can I use a mask for before changing it?”
DR LIO: So you want to make sure that the mask is fit snugly around your face, around the side of the face. If it is a mask with the loops, you know the loops go over your ears, make sure the mask covers your nose, your mouth, and it goes underneath the chin. In terms of how often you have to change it, whenever you are touching the mask at all, you should throw it away, or if you have a reusable one, you should be washing it. That is because if you’re outside, sometimes the virus particles will be on the mask. If you’re touching that, and then touching your face afterward, the mask doesn’t help at all. If you’re wearing a disposable mask, once you’re touching the mask, you want to dispose of it, and you want to wash your hands as well.
DR. LIO: If you have one of those cloth masks or one of those scarves to wrap your face around, those are reusable. But once you touch it, most people would advise you to clean it. You can clean it by throwing it into the laundry, putting the temperature setting on the warmest possible, whatever is acceptable for the material, and then dry it afterward. You should be able to reuse that again.
DR. LIO: In general, if you have the cloth masks, use those. The surgical masks in general provide more protection, but I would save those for if you are taking care of someone that is COVID positive. For example, if you have an elderly parent in the house who is sick, and you have to go into the bedroom, and you have to help feed them, take care of the room, take care of their health needs inside the room, you can first put one of those surgical masks on the patient, wear one of those yourself as well.
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茱莉亚：非常感谢您的回答。现在让我们深入回答社区居民提交给我们的关于新冠疫情的问题。我的第一个问题是关于口罩的佩戴。一位居民问“我应该如何戴口罩？一个口罩可以使用多久才需要更换？”
刘医生：口罩应当贴合你的面部以及面部侧面。如果是带耳挂的口罩，请确保口罩覆盖你的鼻子、嘴巴以及下巴。就更换的频率而言，每次当你的手触摸到口罩时，就应该丢弃它；或者如果你使用的是可重复使用的口罩，应该清洗后使用。这是因为你在外面的时候，有时病毒颗粒会附着在口罩外。如果你触摸了口罩，然后再触摸你的脸，那口罩根本没有起到作用。所以，如果你戴着一次性口罩，一旦你触碰到口罩，就应该扔掉它，然后认真洗手。
刘医生：如果你用的是布制口罩，或是用围巾包裹你的脸，这些是可重复使用的，但一旦你触摸到了口罩，我们会建议你清洗它。你只要把它放进洗衣机能清洗干净，尽可能将洗涤水温设置为使用的材料能接受的最高温度，然后使其干燥。这样就可以再次重复使用。
刘医生：一般来说，我们告诉大家使用布制口罩，虽然外科口罩会提供更好的保护。我们建议你把外科口罩保留到实际需要护理新冠阳性的患者时再使用，比如说，如果你家里有年长的父母生病了，你必须要进入卧室，照料他们进食，或者收拾房间，照顾他们的健康需求时，你可以首先给患者戴上一个外科口罩，然后自己也戴一个外科口罩。