Uniting Infectious Disease and Physical Science Principles on the Importance of Face Masks for COVID-19

This commentary will summarize the evidence on face masks for COVID-19 from both the infectious diseases and physical science viewpoints; standardize recommendations on types of masks that afford the best protection to the public; and provide guidelines on messaging for this important non-pharmaceut...

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Autores principales: Gandhi, Monica, Marr, Linsey C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33521753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.008
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spelling pubmed-78336962021-01-26 Uniting Infectious Disease and Physical Science Principles on the Importance of Face Masks for COVID-19 Gandhi, Monica Marr, Linsey C. Med (N Y) Commentary This commentary will summarize the evidence on face masks for COVID-19 from both the infectious diseases and physical science viewpoints; standardize recommendations on types of masks that afford the best protection to the public; and provide guidelines on messaging for this important non-pharmaceutical intervention as we await widespread vaccine distribution. Cell Press 2021-01-15 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7833696/ /pubmed/33521753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.008 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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