"We must hammer the message: masks are useless when we are not sick!" For Carine Wolf-Thal, president of the National Council of the Order of Pharmacists, it is important to understand that wearing a mask is not a "barrier measure" against the spread of the coronavirus.
Surgical masks, now only available on prescription, are only useful for sick people while FFP2 medical masks, in smaller quantities and more restrictive, must be reserved for nursing staff in hospitals.