Open AccessOUP accepted manuscript
Author(s) -
Francesco Landi,
Emanuele Marzetti,
Maurizio Sanguinetti,
Francesca Ciciarello,
Marcello Tritto,
Francesca Benvenuto,
Giulia Bramato,
Vincenzo Brandi,
Angelo Carfì,
Emanuela D’Angelo,
Domenico Fusco,
Maria Rita Lo Monaco,
Anna Maria Martone,
Francesco Pagano,
Sara Rocchi,
Elisabetta Rota,
Andrea M. Russo,
Andrea Salerno,
Paola Cattani,
Simona Marchetti
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions of the royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1878-3503
pISSN - 0035-9203
DOI - 10.1093/trstmh/traa085
Subject(s) - face masks , covid-19 , medicine , hygiene , social distance , pandemic , transmission (telecommunications) , hand washing , virology , outbreak , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , electrical engineering , engineering
In East Asia, face masks are commonly worn to reduce viral spread. In Euope and North America, however, their use has been stigmatised for a long time, although this view has radically changed during the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Notwithstanding this, it is still unclear whether face masks worn by COVID-19 carriers may indeed prevent viral transmission and environmental contamination. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of surgical face masks in filtering SARS-CoV-2.