{"id":6679,"date":"2020-05-07T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:36:47","slug":"the-use-of-facemasks-by-the-general-population-to-prevent-transmission-of-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/07\/the-use-of-facemasks-by-the-general-population-to-prevent-transmission-of-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Use of Facemasks by the General Population to Prevent Transmission of\u00a0Covid\u00a019 Infection A Systematic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic literature review on the role of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surgical and cloth\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">face masks in preventing the spre<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ad of respiratory viruses in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0community or experimental setting shows that early initiation of facemask use can prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. This is particularly true for viruses which can be transmitted by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">presymptomatic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or asymptotic individuals, but utility is limited by inconsistent adherence to mask use. Articles focusing on masks and N95 respirators in health care workers were excluded.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gupta et al. (May 6, 2020). The Use of Facemasks by the General Population to Prevent Transmission of\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Covid<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a019 Infection A Systematic Review.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded <\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">7<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0from\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.01.20087064\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.01.20087064<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic literature review on the role of\u00a0surgical and cloth\u00a0face masks in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses in\u00a0community or experimental setting shows that early initiation of facemask use can prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. This is particularly true for viruses which can be transmitted by\u00a0presymptomatic\u00a0or asymptotic individuals, but utility is limited by inconsistent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/07\/the-use-of-facemasks-by-the-general-population-to-prevent-transmission-of-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}