Several Wrong Ways To Wear A Face Mask

1. Your face mask only covers your mouth.
If you are wearing your medical mask low so it only covers your mouth, you’re doing it wrong, and you risk becoming ill or making someone else ill.
If your nose is not covered by the medical mask, you also risk contamination from the mask itself, which collects germs and droplets on its exterior.

2. Your mask comes in contact with your body or your stuff.
If the coronavirus gets on your clothes, face or body, and your loose mask touches those things, that’s a problem, too.
Remember to wash your hands before and after you put a face mask on or take it off, medical experts advise.
 

3. Your mask hangs too loosely on your face.
When worn properly, N95 respirators that doctors use are closely fitted to the face. But if you are using a surgical mask or a homemade cloth mask, you may be letting the sides gap loosely.
 

4. Your face mask covers only the tip of your nose.
If you are covering just the tip of your nose, that’s going to leave big air gaps on the top of your medical mask for air to be able to come in and out. That’s why we recommend that the mask sits on the bridge of your nose and not the tip.