A comprehensive review of various categories of face masks resistant to Covid-19

The science about the usage of face masks by the common public to avert COVID-19 transmission is proceeding swiftly. A primary route of transmission of COVID-19 is probably through small respiratory droplets, and it is transmissible from asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic individuals. According to the...

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Autores principales: Das, Sonali, Sarkar, Sagarika, Das, Anusree, Das, Shreyosree, Chakraborty, Pallab, Sarkar, Joy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8326209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34368502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100835
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description The science about the usage of face masks by the common public to avert COVID-19 transmission is proceeding swiftly. A primary route of transmission of COVID-19 is probably through small respiratory droplets, and it is transmissible from asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic individuals. According to the World Health Organization, wearing a mask in public can help reduce the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Different categories and types of masks and their usage are reviewed in this work. In a nutshell, this review work elucidates the aspects of utilizing the various face masks along with all possibilities to fight against the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-83262092021-08-02 A comprehensive review of various categories of face masks resistant to Covid-19 Das, Sonali Sarkar, Sagarika Das, Anusree Das, Shreyosree Chakraborty, Pallab Sarkar, Joy Clin Epidemiol Glob Health Review Article The science about the usage of face masks by the common public to avert COVID-19 transmission is proceeding swiftly. A primary route of transmission of COVID-19 is probably through small respiratory droplets, and it is transmissible from asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic individuals. According to the World Health Organization, wearing a mask in public can help reduce the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Different categories and types of masks and their usage are reviewed in this work. In a nutshell, this review work elucidates the aspects of utilizing the various face masks along with all possibilities to fight against the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2021 2021-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8326209/ /pubmed/34368502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100835 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) 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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