Wearing face masks regardless of symptoms is crucial for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in hospitals

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Jan;42(1):115-116. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.202. Epub 2020 May 6.

Authors

Joon Kee Lee^{1

2}, Hye Won Jeong^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea.
² Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, South Korea.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / diagnosis
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
COVID-19* / virology
Communicable Disease Control* / instrumentation
Communicable Disease Control* / methods
Contact Tracing / methods*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Humans
Masks*
Occupational Health
Republic of Korea / epidemiology
Risk Management / methods
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
Symptom Assessment / methods