When she started feeling sick and went to UHS, doctors tested her for influenza by conducting a throat swab and two nose swabs. Gavrilman ended up not having the flu, but was given $25 extra for being tested.

When she started feeling sick and went to UHS, doctors tested her for influenza by conducting a throat swab and two nose swabs. Gavrilman ended up not having the flu, but was given $25 extra for being tested.

LSA sophomore Trevor Maat didn't partake in the study, but said many of his friends in Alice Lloyd did but didn't fully comply.

“Last year I noticed a lot of people that participated in it were doing it just to get paid, and they would not wear the masks around the dorm,” Maat said. “Parts of the results may be correct, but considering the masks were a basis for the experiment, I don’t think they’re accurate.”

Winfield said he was confident the measures tested would be beneficial in the case of a major outbreak.

“In the event that we have a major epidemic of influenza, whether it be a pandemic that’s world wide or a local epidemic in the Midwest, we now know that wearing a mask can make a difference in the spread of the disease.”