COVID-19 epidemic: disentangling the re-emerging controversy about medical facemasks from an epidemiological perspective

Ka Hung Chan^{1

2}, Kwok-Yung Yuen³

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Public Health Research Collaborative, Hong Kong SAR.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

Ka Hung Chan et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 1;49(4):1063-1066.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa044.

Ka Hung Chan^{1

2}, Kwok-Yung Yuen³

¹ Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Public Health Research Collaborative, Hong Kong SAR.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

Erratum in

Erratum to: COVID-19 epidemic: disentangling the re-emerging controversy about medical facemasks from an epidemiological perspective.
Chan KH, Yuen KY. Chan KH, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Oct 1;49(5):1760. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa189. Int J Epidemiol. 2020. PMID: 33147615 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

No abstract available

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