{"id":2320,"date":"2020-11-23T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:10:19","slug":"physical-interventions-to-interrupt-or-reduce-the-spread-of-respiratory-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/physical-interventions-to-interrupt-or-reduce-the-spread-of-respiratory-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis with 67 pre-COVID-19 trials reported no significant reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical\/surgical masks during influenza season (9 trials; 3507 participants), and no clear differences between the use of medical\/surgical masks versus N95\/P2 respirators in healthcare workers (5 trials; 8407 participants). Hand hygiene was associated with an 11% relative reduction of respiratory illness (7 trials; 44,129 participants) but with low-certainty evidence and high heterogeneity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Jefferson et al. (Nov 20, 2020). Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/14651858.CD006207.pub5\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/14651858.CD006207.pub5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis with 67 pre-COVID-19 trials reported no significant reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical\/surgical masks during influenza season (9 trials; 3507 participants), and no clear differences between the use of medical\/surgical masks versus N95\/P2 respirators in healthcare workers (5 trials; 8407 participants). Hand hygiene was associated with an 11% relative&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/physical-interventions-to-interrupt-or-reduce-the-spread-of-respiratory-viruses\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}