Department of Medicine

“The key is to remember to wear your mask around others, pay attention to cleaning of surfaces, and try to limit your activities to areas that are well ventilated or outdoors,” says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

“Both of these types of masks have the ability to prevent transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19,” so you wouldn't need to double mask if you use one of these, says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

It’s why Jose Castillo-Mancilla, associate professor of medicine, is working to recruit more people of color for UCHealth’s third vaccine trial.