Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer

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Although the benefit of population-level public facial masking to protect others during the COVID-19 pandemic has received a great deal of attention, we discuss for one of the first times the hypothesis that universal masking reduces the “inoculum” or dose of the virus for the mask-wearer, leading to more mild and asymptomatic infection manifestations.

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Gandhi, Monica, Chris Beyrer, and Eric Goosby.

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2020-07-31

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Gandhi, Monica, Chris Beyrer, and Eric Goosby. 2020. "Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer." Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32737790/

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Gandhi, Monica, Chris Beyrer, and Eric Goosby. , “Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer,” NETEC Resource Library, accessed March 6, 2021, https://repository.netecweb.org/items/show/1320.

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