학술논문

Universal Masking in Health Care Settings: A Pandemic Strategy Whose Time Has Come and Gone, For Now.
Document Type
Article
Source
Annals of Internal Medicine. Jun2023, Vol. 176 Issue 6, p859-861. 3p. 1 Diagram.
Subject
*UNIVERSAL healthcare
*COVID-19 pandemic
*PANDEMICS
*COMMUNICABLE diseases
*EPIDEMIOLOGISTS
*MEDICAL care
Language
ISSN
0003-4819
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the use of facemasks has been mandated in all health care settings for all people older than 2 years. In this commentary, a group of health care epidemiologists, infectious diseases physicians, and researchers argue for the withdrawal of the universal masking policy given the current status of the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]