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Letters Face coverings for covid-19

Covid-19: public messaging on vaccination must heed warnings from confused face mask messaging

BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3775 (Published 30 September 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3775
  1. Simon E Kolstoe, senior lecturer
  1. School of Health and Care Professions, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2UP, UK
  1. simon.kolstoe{at}port.ac.uk

One reason face coverings have become a contentious issue is the medical community’s failure to make clear why people are being asked to wear them.1

At the beginning of the pandemic, people were “panic buying” products including toilet roll, so it made sense not to promote the buying of medical masks by the public, especially as the medical community was experiencing shortages of …

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