claim: surgical mask partition reduces the risk of noncontact transmission in a golden syrian hamster model for coronavirus disease 2019
evidence_1: surgical mask partition for challenged index or naive hamsters significantly reduced transmission to 25% (6/24, p = .018).", "exposure to respiratory droplets can theoretically be reduced by surgical mask usage.", "surgical mask partition for challenged index hamsters significantly reduced transmission to only 16.7% (2/12, p = .019) of exposed naive hamsters.", "conclusions: sars-cov-2 could be transmitted by respiratory droplets or airborne droplet nuclei which could be reduced by surgical mask partition in the hamster model."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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