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Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

Monica Gandhi, George W. Rutherford

2020New England Journal of Medicine241 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Facial Masking for Covid-19 Increasing the proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections that are asymptomatic with the simple public health measure of universal masking might help make the infection less de...

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