Make sure the mask is covering nose and mouth
The COVID virus is spread by droplets; it’s spread when we cough or sneeze or even talk. A droplet from one person gets transmitted to another person, said Dr. Alison Haddock, with Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Haddock says she sees mask mistakes. Keep the mask over both your nose and mouth at all times. Dr. Haddock says she sees people moving the mask to talk.

If you are wearing the mask like this so that it’s only covering your mouth, then you are missing out on an opportunity to block it from transmitting the virus, she explains. If you are wearing the mask around your chin and then pulling it up. Bringing it down, that’s a problem too. All of that touching of the mask allows getting droplets from the mask on your hands then transmit them to yourself. 

Don’t take the mask off too soon 
You may see people removing their masks once they get in their car. Dr. Haddock advises it’s best to wait until you get in your home.

“I put it on before I leave my house that way I know my hands are totally clean when I put it on,” said Dr. Haddock, “Then when I get home taking it off completely using the ties in the back not touching this part that has been touching my hands my mouth.”

Most important: Don’t touch the mask portion
Try to remove the mask by using the ties in the back and try not to touch the cloth mask portion.

Once you have been wearing it, the front of the mask is contaminated, or potentially contaminated,” she explains. “You want to make sure you are not transmitting any of that around your home.

Wash your mask in hot water each time you wear it.