Letter to editor - Can universal masking help with our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
³ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: b02401124@ntu.edu.tw.

Comment

Cho-Hung Chiang et al. Int J Surg. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:79:125-126.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.058. Epub 2020 May 23.

¹ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
³ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: b02401124@ntu.edu.tw.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Community; Lockdown; Pandemic; Policy; Social distancing; Source control; Surgical mask; Universal masking.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest There are no competing interests.

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