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The Massive Misuse of Face Mask as a Risk to COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American: The Case of Mexico

2021-03-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a great challenge in waste management around the world. While the use of face masks has been shown to reduce the number of transmissions of COVID-19, it has also generated a high amount of waste, undermining the capacity of authorities and dumping areas to manage medical waste correctly. Latin American countries are particularly vulnerable because they a...

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Literature Corpus work: 05957a80-671c-5dd4-b248-324bd2c5837a
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-323037/v1

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