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Face masks protect from COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses – News-Medical.Net
Now a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in August 2020, therefore, presents the results of a meta-analysis that takes account of the lack of compliance with mask-wearing in RCTs, as well as the lag between the event and the measurable effects.
The current pandemic of COVID-19 is spread by the dispersal of aerosols and droplets containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) on to surfaces and through the air around an infected individual. While common sense and scientific evidence both suggest that under such conditions, breaking the chain of transmission by avoiding contact with such droplets is advisable, this has met with unexpected resistance by some sections.
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