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Mohammad Alfelali, Elizabeth A. Haworth, Osamah Barasheed, Al-Mamoon Badahdah, Hamid Bokhary, Mohamed Tashani, Mohammad I. Azeem, Jen Kok, Janette Taylor, Elizabeth H. Barnes, Haitham El Bashir, Gulam Khandaker, Edward C. Holmes, Dominic E. Dwyer, Leon G. Heron, Godwin J. Wilson, Robert Booy, and Harunor Rashid
October 13, 2020
PLOS One
University of Sydney (Australia)

Background: In this large-scale cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT) we sought to assess the effectiveness of facemasks against viral respiratory infections.

Method and results: … By intention-to-treat analysis, facemask use did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections… nor against clinical respiratory infection.”

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