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work_7tajq7vgzjfutji6i2s4y6r2c4	Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen	Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social practice	2020	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3961	721	62	Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social practice Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen and colleagues argue that face coverings should be considered • Face coverings are also a social practice and carry a public not being able to use face coverings safely. efficacy and reliability of face coverings.1 Public health policy must During the covid-19 pandemic, wearing face coverings is being Table 1 | Shifting public health messaging about face coverings from being seen as a medical intervention to a social practice around wearing, making, and distributing face coverings that is face covering in public. In South Africa it has been mandatory to wear a face covering when of face coverings by the lay public as source control in covid-19; she has received no direct funding for Wearing face masks in the community during the COVID-19 Face masks and coverings for the general public:	./cache/work_7tajq7vgzjfutji6i2s4y6r2c4.pdf	./txt/work_7tajq7vgzjfutji6i2s4y6r2c4.txt