Public Masking: An Urgent Need to Revise Global Policies to Protect against COVID-19

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Editorial

Maryam Keshtkar-Jahromi et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg.2020 Jun.

.2020 Jun;102(6):1160-1161.

doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0305.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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