{"id":8395,"date":"2020-07-21T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:08:09","slug":"bidirectional-impact-of-imperfect-mask-use-on-reproduction-number-of-covid-19-a-next-generation-matrix-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/bidirectional-impact-of-imperfect-mask-use-on-reproduction-number-of-covid-19-a-next-generation-matrix-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidirectional Impact of Imperfect Mask Use on Reproduction Number of COVID-19: A next Generation Matrix Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using a next generation matrix approach, Fisman et al. found that even modest use of imperfect masks\u00a0reduce\u00a0COVID-19 transmission, and widespread use may be able to bring R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&lt;1 if it has already been brought close to 1 by other interventions. However, the effect of mask wearing on transmission at a population level is reduced in scenarios in which mask wearers are more likely to mix with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">other\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mask wearers than\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-wearers (assortativ<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mixing).\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\">Fisman et al. (2020). Bidirectional Impact of Imperfect Mask Use on Reproduction Number of COVID-19: A next Generation Matrix Approach. Infectious Disease Modelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.idm.2020.06.004\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.idm.2020.06.004<\/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>Using a next generation matrix approach, Fisman et al. found that even modest use of imperfect masks\u00a0reduce\u00a0COVID-19 transmission, and widespread use may be able to bring R0&lt;1 if it has already been brought close to 1 by other interventions. However, the effect of mask wearing on transmission at a population level is reduced in scenarios&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/bidirectional-impact-of-imperfect-mask-use-on-reproduction-number-of-covid-19-a-next-generation-matrix-approach\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","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=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8396,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}