Masking for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral infections: implications of the available evidence.

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol · 2024 · PMC11077603 · PMID 38721491

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The combined Cochrane analysis of 5 RCTs (4 of them conducted in healthcare settings) found a trend favoring N95s, however this did not reach statistical significance.

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