This week we take a look at the choice of masks, what works best and what the differences are between the different names and annotations of the higher grade filtration masks:

N95 –US standards (NIOSH approved)
KN95 – Chinese Standard
KF94 – South Korea Standard

As the CDC has said: any mask is better than no mask, and most importantly, the best mask that you wear is the one you will wear and the one you can keep on all day long and tolerate in public indoor settings

We review the different types of testing available, Rapid Diagnostic Tests, and make sense of some of the information circulating that suggests that at home or rapid tests are not accurate and highlight that timing is key in the effectiveness of these tests that need to be used with the right clinical intentions in mind

And finally, we talk about the paper that has been circulating talking about cannabis and COVID-19. It was inevitable we would see plenty of coverage of this study in the Journal of Natural Products: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV‐2 and the Emerging Variants

The key point here is that cannabis does not protect against COVID and the study while interesting was laboratory-based and focused on some elements or ‘acids’ found in hemp plants.
We don’t yet know if even these compounds will actually do anything in the body since the tests were performed in the laboratory and what happens in a test tube does not always translate into what happens in animals or humans.

Weed does not stop COVID.

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