Maintaining mask stockpiles in the COVID-19 pandemic: Taiwan as a learning model

Maintaining mask stockpiles in the COVID-19 pandemic: Taiwan as a learning model

To the Editor—The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended the use of face masks in public settings to help slow the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus.1 Currently, a mask shortage continues in the United States and around the globe. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

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Veröffentlicht in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2021-02, Vol.42 (2), p.244-245
Hauptverfasser: Chiang, Cho-Hung, Chiang, Cho-Hsien, Chiang, Cho-Han
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - transmission
Disease control
Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
Humans
Letter to the Editor
Masks
Masks - supply & distribution
Models, Organizational
Nursing
Pandemics
Prevention
Taiwan
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Zusammenfassung:To the Editor—The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended the use of face masks in public settings to help slow the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus.1 Currently, a mask shortage continues in the United States and around the globe. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/preventiontreatment.html. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control website [in Chinese]. https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Category/MPage/gL7-bARtHyNdrDq882pJ9Q.
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2020.226