Healthcare workers and protection against inhalable SARS-CoV-2 aerosols
2021
Early View
1-3
epidemic disease ; healthcare worker ; personal protective equipment ; aerosols
Protective measures
https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqab033
English
Bibliogr.
"By February 2021 expert groups in several countries had lobbied governments for proper recognition of the risk of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and specific strategies to reduce this, including upgrades of respiratory protection (RPE) for healthcare workers (HCWs). This becomes particularly relevant with the emergence of more transmissible strains of SARS-CoV-2 and another wave of disease. ..."
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