Masks: a false sense of security
Updated on 29 April 2009
As the government stockpiles 32 million face masks, More4 News asks, is this panic buying or understandable anxiety?
The chief medical officer Liam Donaldson, says they offer "a false sense of security" to the public and are of "very little value".
But that hasn't stopped companies and worried members of the public from buying not just masks but full-body "swine flu kits" as well.
Joanna Simpson has been to a company in Telford that is doing a roaring trade either way.
