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Decreased hospitalizations and deaths from community-acquired pneumonia coincided with rising public awareness of personal precautions before the governmental containment and closure policy: A nationwide observational study in Japan

2022-06-27

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<h4>Background</h4> The effectiveness of population-wide compliance to personal precautions (mask-wearing and hand hygiene) in preventing community-acquired pneumonia has been unknown. In Japan, different types of non-pharmaceutical interventions from personal precautions to containment and closure policies (CACPs, e.g. stay-at-home requests) were sequentially introduced from late January to April 2020, allowing f...

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DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.23.22276838

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