Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social practice.

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, August 2020

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"Policies to encourage uptake should reflect the complex and contested sociocultural meanings of covering the face and draw on…

We all agree #FaceMasks are a valuable preventative tool to reduce transmission of #Covid19. Now we need to shift the focus to…

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"Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social practice"

“Dr Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen (TB Proof) and colleagues argue that face coverings should be considered not as medical…

Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen and colleagues argue that face coverings should be considered not as medical equipment but as a…

Protracted debates about face coverings as a medical intervention have delayed implementation of a valuable preventive tool.