The Time for Universal Masking of the Public for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Is Now

In this perspective, we recommend universal masking of the US public during coronavirus disease 2019 due to the high contagiousness of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), viral shedding of viable SARS-CoV-2 from asymptomatic individuals, and the likely contribution of maski...

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Autores principales: Gandhi, Monica, Havlir, Diane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7179801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32346544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa131
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description In this perspective, we recommend universal masking of the US public during coronavirus disease 2019 due to the high contagiousness of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), viral shedding of viable SARS-CoV-2 from asymptomatic individuals, and the likely contribution of masking to core distancing public health strategies for curbing transmission.
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spelling pubmed-71798012020-04-28 The Time for Universal Masking of the Public for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Is Now Gandhi, Monica Havlir, Diane Open Forum Infect Dis Perspectives In this perspective, we recommend universal masking of the US public during coronavirus disease 2019 due to the high contagiousness of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), viral shedding of viable SARS-CoV-2 from asymptomatic individuals, and the likely contribution of masking to core distancing public health strategies for curbing transmission. Oxford University Press 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7179801/ /pubmed/32346544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa131 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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