key: cord-0738784-pxb3ofoz
authors: nan
title: COVID‐19 and the personal protection debate: An exposition on transmission
date: 2020-07-06
journal: J Paediatr Child Health
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.15054
sha: 9653025b60e9eb3e765b11ecfb3b27cafe0b31b3
doc_id: 738784
cord_uid: pxb3ofoz

nan

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated strict practices to curb potential transmission, with widespread upheaval of health, economic and political systems. Infection control precautions have been extrapolated from viruses with similar transmission dynamics, with low to moderate quality supporting data. 1 A meta-analysis commissioned by the World Health Organiza- There were no randomised controlled trials and most of the evidence was from health-care settings, so extrapolation of these findings, for example to public wearing of face masks, should be cautious and should depend on rates of community transmission. 3 

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