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Face mask use in the general population and optimal resource allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020-04-07

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The ongoing novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly spread in early 2020, causing tens of thousands of deaths, over a million cases and widespread socioeconomic disruption. With no vaccine available and numerous national healthcare systems reaching or exceeding capacity, interventions to limit transmission are urgently needed. While there is broad agreement that travel restricti...

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Literature Corpus work: b9548a1e-a64f-563e-a2c4-297f29c8ed4a
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.04.20052696

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