Carregant...
Tipus de document
ArticleVersió
Versió publicadaData de publicació
Llicència de publicació
Si us plau utilitzeu sempre aquest identificador per citar o enllaçar aquest document: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192810
Face Mask Exemptions, Respiratory Patients, and COVID-19 in Spain. Data From the 2021 ITC EUREST-PLUS Spain Survey
Títol de la revista
Director/Tutor
ISSN de la revista
Títol del volum
Recurs relacionat
Resum
Dear Editor, During the initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, respiratory patients received confusing messages by several patient associations and the World Health Organization1, 2 to be exempted from wearing face masks. Allegedly, many assumed that difficult breathing through face masks might exacerbate their respiratory condition, producing asthma attacks or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. In its December 2020 Interim Guidance on Mask use in the context of COVID-19, WHO cited studies suggesting that masks might have an adverse impact on respiratory disease patients, but they did not provide any guidance about whether respiratory disease patients should or should not wear masks; explicitly, it reads in page 10 of 22 the following paragraph and references:
Matèries (anglès)
Citació
Citació
SORIANO, Joan b., FU, Marcela, CASTELLANO, Yolanda, ANCOCHEA, Julio, FONG, Geoffrey t., FERNÁNDEZ MUÑOZ, Esteve. Face Mask Exemptions, Respiratory Patients, and COVID-19 in Spain. Data From the 2021 ITC EUREST-PLUS Spain Survey. _Open Respiratory Archives_. 2023. Vol. 5, núm. 1, pàgs. 100218. [consulta: 23 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 2659-6636. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192810]