An easy way to make mask-wearing more comfortable

😷 Today’s tip: Use a Band-Aid to fix a mask that keeps sliding off your nose.

The ultimate 2020 wardrobe malfunction is the mask that insists on continually falling down your face, no matter how many times you tug it back into proper position over your nose. On Twitter, surgeon Daniel M. Heiferman recently offered an easy fix: Use a Band-Aid to keep it in place. “Learned it in the OR,” he wrote, above a photo of his own masked and Band-Aid-ed face. (An added bonus: it also helps prevent glasses fog.)

In a time when everything feels difficult and complicated, here, at least, is one thing with a simple solution.

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