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Assessing the impact of widespread respirator use in curtailing COVID-19 transmission in the United States

2021-03-29

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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 United States. We showed that the pandemic would have failed to establish in the US if a nationwide mask mandate, based on using respirators with moderately-high compliance, had been implemented during the first two months of the pandemic. The o...

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DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.27.21254480

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