Using a Face Mask? These 5 Most Common Mask Mistakes Can Give You COVID

KK Malukani, PhD
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readAug 15, 2020

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

The above quote also stands true for people who want to stay safe from COVID-19. Since pandemic is spreading at the community level in most of the countries, many people who are taking almost all of the precautions are also getting infected. Here is a list of most common mask mistakes I found that leads to face mask users getting infected with COVID.

People who are taking almost all of the precautions are also getting infected with COVID.

My reasons are not coming from anywhere random. Being the only PhD most of my friends and relatives know, I have been contacted by multiple people since this COVID pandemic started. I have personally spoken to hundreds of people and help them not just stay safe but calm as well.

But of late, some of them have contacted coronavirus while taking all precautions they think they could. Additionally, I’m running a blog named Life with Coronavirus on safety measures for COVID and some people replied there including the mode by which they think how they got infected. Some of these…

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KK Malukani, PhD
ILLUMINATION

Avid reader, Science communicator, COVID warrior, Citizen of Earth. Doctor of plants.