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Downsides of face masks and possible mitigation strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2020-06-19

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<h4>Objective</h4> To identify, appraise, and synthesise studies evaluating the downsides of wearing facemasks in any setting. We also discuss potential strategies to mitigate these downsides. <h4>Methods</h4> PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, EuropePMC were searched (inception-18/5/2020), and clinical registries were searched via CENTRAL. We also did forward-backward citation search of the included studies. We included ra...

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Literature Corpus work: 8dfd8a7c-9aa8-5ae6-b24b-4ed45f4a8b2e
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.16.20133207

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