ArticleMed (New York, N.Y.)2021
Uniting Infectious Disease and Physical Science Principles on the Importance of Face Masks for COVID-19.
Article in Med (New York, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Indoor bioaerosols and asthma: Overview, implications, and mitigation strategies.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025Review
- Thermal imaging and deep learning-based fit-checking for respiratory protection.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Relationships between effective safety training, safety knowledge and personal protective equipment related behaviors among firefighters.Journal of safety research · 2024Article
- Reducing Transmission of Airborne Respiratory Pathogens: A New Beginning as the COVID-19 Emergency Ends.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Review
- Comparison of the inward leakage rate between N95 filtering facepiece respirators and modified surgical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2024Article
- The Impact of Mask Mandates on Face Mask Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Survey Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Comparison of health-oriented cross-regional allocation strategies for the COVID-19 vaccine: a mathematical modelling study.Annals of medicine · 2022Article
- Bioaerosols and airborne transmission: Integrating biological complexity into our perspective.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Evaluation of different types of face masks to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2: a modeling study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Metrics for Phased Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Transmission for Institutions of Higher Education: 2022 and Beyond.Open forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- A stochastic contact network model for assessing outbreak risk of COVID-19 in workplaces.PloS one · 2022Article
- Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- A comparison of performance metrics for cloth masks as source control devices for simulated cough and exhalation aerosols.Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research · 2021Article
- Expiratory aerosol particle escape from surgical masks due to imperfect sealing.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- What the science says about lifting mask mandates.Nature · 2021Article
- Maximizing Fit for Cloth and Medical Procedure Masks to Improve Performance and Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Exposure, 2021.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2021Article
- A comparison of performance metrics for cloth face masks as source control devices for simulated cough and exhalation aerosols.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2021Article
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- Applying the Hierarchy of Controls: What Occupational Safety Can Teach us About Safely Navigating the Next Phase of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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Abstract
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.
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