Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LE, UK. Electronic address: shuo.feng@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China.
⁴ Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, UK.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Shuo Feng et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;8(5):434-436.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30134-X. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

¹ Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LE, UK. Electronic address: shuo.feng@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China.
⁴ Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, UK.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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