Assessing the impact of widespread respirator use in curtailing COVID-19 transmission in the USA
Dynamic models are used to assess the impact of three types of face masks (cloth masks, surgical/procedure masks and respirators) in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. We showed that the pandemic would have failed to establish in the USA if a nationwide mask mandate, based on using respir...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2021-09-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210699 |