Universal Masking in Health Care Settings

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¹ Harvard Medical School, Infection Control Unit and Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Infection Control, Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Tufts Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ VA Boston Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research and Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Erica S Shenoy et al. Ann Intern Med. 2023 Dec.

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. 2023 Dec;176(12):eL230351.

doi: 10.7326/L23-0351.

¹ Harvard Medical School, Infection Control Unit and Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Infection Control, Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Tufts Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ VA Boston Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research and Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts.

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