Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era

N Engl J Med. 2020 May 21;382(21):e63. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2006372. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

Authors

Michael Klompas¹, Charles A Morris¹, Julia Sinclair¹, Madelyn Pearson¹, Erica S Shenoy¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (M.K.), Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.K., C.A.M., J.S., M.P.), Harvard Medical School (M.K., C.A.M., E.S.S.), and the Infection Control Unit and Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital (E.S.S.) - all in Boston.

PMID: 32237672
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2006372

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control*
Masks*
Mass Screening
Pandemics / prevention & control
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
SARS-CoV-2