Machine wash your cloth masks, study finds

Clothes masks washed and hanged on clothes lines
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Cloth masks have been somewhat controversial during the pandemic, with a randomised trial in health workers in Vietnam a few years ago suggesting they increased the risk of respiratory infections.

One of the original authors of that study, Professor Raina MacIntyre of the Kirby Institute has led a re-analysis of the work and found that one of the problems was how re-useable cloth masks were cleaned. HEAR the interview.