{"id":7268,"date":"2020-06-02T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:50:05","slug":"physical-distancing-face-masks-and-eye-protection-to-prevent-person-to-person-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/physical-distancing-face-masks-and-eye-protection-to-prevent-person-to-person-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Distancing, Face Masks, and Eye Protection to Prevent Person-to-Person Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19:\u00a0A Systematic\u00a0Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent transmission of\u00a0betacoronaviruses\u00a0such as SARS-CoV-2 reveal that physical distancing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at least<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a01 meter\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had lower<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0viral transmission, with protection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0increasing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t longer<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0distance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Face masks also show<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a large reduction in infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0risk<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, with stronger associations\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0N95 or similar respirators\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0disposable surgical masks or cotton masks.<\/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\">Chu et al. (June 1, 2020). Physical Distancing, Face Masks, and Eye Protection to Prevent Person-to-Person Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19:\u00a0A Systematic\u00a0Review and Meta-Analysis. The Lancet.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31142-9\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31142-9<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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 review and meta-analysis of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent transmission of\u00a0betacoronaviruses\u00a0such as SARS-CoV-2 reveal that physical distancing\u00a0by\u00a0at least\u00a01 meter\u00a0had lower\u00a0viral transmission, with protection\u00a0increasing\u00a0at longer\u00a0distances. Face masks also showed\u00a0a large reduction in infection\u00a0risk, with stronger associations\u00a0for\u00a0N95 or similar respirators\u00a0as\u00a0compared\u00a0to\u00a0disposable surgical masks or cotton masks.\u00a0 Chu et al. (June 1, 2020). Physical Distancing, Face Masks, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/physical-distancing-face-masks-and-eye-protection-to-prevent-person-to-person-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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-7268","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\/7268","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=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}