Experts Call for Better Masks As Pandemic Rolls On

Abraar Karan, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Tom Frieden, MD, Resolvetosavelives.org.

Monica Gandhi, MD, University of California, San Francisco.

Alice Sato, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, NE.

Cell: “Uniting Infectious Disease and Physical Science Principles on the Importance of Face Masks for COVID-19.”

 JAMA Internal Medicine: “Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany.”

The Local: “Austrian government to distribute free FFP2 masks to over 65s ‘by mid-January.’”

CDC.gov: “Your Guide to Masks,” “Trends in County-Level COVID-19 Incidence in Counties With and Without a Mask Mandate — Kansas, June 1-August 23, 2020,”

“Trends in COVID-19 Incidence After Implementation of Mitigation Measures — Arizona, January 22-August 7, 2020,” “Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage — United States, December 29, 2020-January 12, 2021.”

The Atlantic: “Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?”

The Lancet: “Mask-wearing linked to reduced COVID-19 transmission, US modelling study suggests.”