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cord-354111-rj6te7fz	Stone, Teresa E.	Editorial: Facemasks and the Covid 19 pandemic: What advice should health professionals be giving the general public about the wearing of facemasks?	2020-04-12		.txt	text/plain	2097	103	59	The World Health Organization's director general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, demand for personal protective equipment was 100 times higher than average, and prices had risen to 20 times higher resulting in global stocks of masks and respirators being insufficient to meet supply (Boseley, 2020) . Authors of a recent systematic review of ten randomized control trials found limited evidence for face mask effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person to avoid transmission or when worn by uninfected people to reduce exposure (Xiao et al., 2020) Summing up evidence Pawlowski (2020) notes that surgical masks are designed for surgeons to wear to prevent the transmission of pathogens from their nose and mouth to the surgical field; they are not intended to avoid viruses being inhaled through the mask.	./cache/cord-354111-rj6te7fz.txt	./txt/cord-354111-rj6te7fz.txt