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ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2020

The role of masks and respirator protection against SARS-CoV-2.

Qiang Wang, Chaoran Yu

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Article in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Immunogenicity and Safety of the COVID-19 Vaccines Compared With Control in Healthy Adults: A Qualitative and Systematic Review.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2022
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  14. The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces.Current opinion in colloid & interface science · 2021
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  15. The Association between Wearing a Mask and COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  16. Influence of Face Masks on the Use of Contact Lenses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Qiang WangFudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200025, PR China.
Chaoran YuFudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200025, PR China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusBetacoronavirusChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32192550
PMCPMC7139364

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