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“An eye for detail” - a café case mystery... 

We may be seeing a lot more masks in public in the coming months (and maybe years) until an effective vaccine for COVID-19 is widely available. I was only familiar with using surgical and N95 masks, so thought it might be interesting to look at what else is out there.⁠⠀

Some research on the protection masks may offer to wearers and those around them, which you might find interesting:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24229526/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

Headaches are a very common problem. Often they are mild, short-lived, and require no treatment, but others can be life-threatening. Knowing about the causes helps guide medics’ questions, examination, and investigations to find the answer.

This is from a series of medical illustrations I’m doing where I take common symptoms and visualise as many important causes as I can. You can read more about it here (and see the others): https://artibiotics.com/blog/causes-of-headache 

If you’d like to support my efforts to make medicine more accessible with art, click here: https://artibiotics.com/support

I am making these comics to explore the science of COVID-19 as it evolves in a friendly format. I hope to make a little more sense of the disease and strategies to beat it. 

If my caretoons help a single person avoid catching or spreading COVID-19, that could mean thousands fewer having to suffer, and a little less strain on the wonderful medics, couriers, police, shopkeepers, and others keeping our countries together at this time.

If you would like to help fuel my art, check out https://artibiotics.com/support. I'm going to release new COVID-19 comics for everyone as I finish them to get these messages out into the world without delay. I will continue to share peeks behind the scenes on their development, abandoned ideas, etc for my Patrons on Patreon.

If you want to share the comic, please credit, don’t edit, and link back to the source to preserve the context and help people find more.

A comic answer to ‘why should we stay 2 meters apart when socially distancing?’ 

The World Health Organisation recommends at least 3ft/1m and Centers for Disease Control recommends 6ft/2m; these numbers are based on the falloff distance of heavy droplets which carry similar coronaviruses to COVID-19.

A recent study reported that the cloud expelled in a cough or sneeze can carry such droplets up to 27ft/8m. It has not yet been confirmed if droplets can infect at this range, however.

Following the guidance of at least 2 meters should help us stay away from infective droplets being shed by people who may not even realise they are infected. For those experiencing symptoms, proper isolation is the best protection for those around you!

I hope you are all staying safe and looking out for one another (from a distance!).

Let me know in the comments if there is a question about COVID-19 you'd like me to tackle with a future comic!

Stay safe out there (at home), flatten the curve and save lives! <3 Thanks to my lovely wife for her input and pushing me to finish this!

More of my illustrated shenanigans:  https://artibiotics.com/