{"id":1637,"date":"2022-11-29T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:09","slug":"medical-masks-versus-n95-respirators-for-preventing-covid-19-among-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/29\/medical-masks-versus-n95-respirators-for-preventing-covid-19-among-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Medical Masks Versus N95 Respirators for Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M22-1966\">Annals of Internal Medicine<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"_i3\">Background:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>It is uncertain if medical masks offer similar protection against COVID-19 compared with N95 respirators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objective:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine whether medical masks are noninferior to N95 respirators to prevent COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"_i5\">Design:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04296643).<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"qRGjjY Zl J dTqlMQmwWDR wXZ i\">qRGjjY Zl J dTqlMQmwWDR wXZ i<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Annals of Internal Medicine) Background: It is uncertain if medical masks offer similar protection against COVID-19 compared with N95 respirators. Objective: To determine whether medical masks are noninferior to N95 respirators to prevent COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care. Design: Multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04296643).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}