ReviewMedical hypotheses2021
Retracted: Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis.
Review in Medical hypotheses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
The trial behind it
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations Between Wearing Masks and Respiratory Viral Infections: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Comparison of Effects of N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks to Physiological and Psychological Health among Healthcare Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Epidemiological surveillance of respiratory viral infections in SARS-CoV-2-negative samples during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.Virology journal · 2023Article
- Antiviral Peptides Delivered by Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles to Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV-OC43.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- Influence of Face Masks on Physiological and Subjective Response during 130 Min of Simulated Light and Medium Physical Manual Work-An Explorative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- COHCA healthcare journal of medicine · 2022Article
- The tiny effects of respiratory masks on physiological, subjective, and behavioral measures under mental load in a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Maintaining mask momentum in transplant recipients.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2021Review
- Face-to-Face Clinical Practice Under COVID-19 Pandemic: How Psychotherapists Describe Their Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Efficacy of Generalized Face Masking Mandates.Health services research and managerial epidemiologyArticle
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2021-05-03Concerns/Issues about Data · Concerns/Issues about Results and/or Conclusions · Concerns/Issues about Referencing/Attributions · False/Forged Affiliation ·
- Retracted
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks' efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
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