About the Authors
- Nathan Ford
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Ford, Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz, Benedetta Allegranzi, April Baller
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: fordn@who.int
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Ford, Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz, Benedetta Allegranzi, April Baller
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Roger Chou
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center and the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
- Vicky Willet
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- May Chu
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Colorado School of Public Health, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Mitchell J. Schwaber
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations National Center for Infection Control, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Kathleen Dunn
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Infectious Disease and Vaccination Programs Branch Agency: Public Health Agency Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- João Paulo Toledo
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Alice Simniceanu
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Madison Moon
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Rebekah Thomas
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Benedetta Allegranzi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Ford, Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz, Benedetta Allegranzi, April Baller
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- April Baller
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan Ford, Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz, Benedetta Allegranzi, April Baller
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: RC received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct a review on masks. He also received funding from WHO to conduct a review on risk factors for transmission in HCWs, and consulting fees as the methodologist for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Guideline Development Group. NF, HH, VW, KD, JPT, AS, MM, RT, BA and AB work for the World Health Organization. There are no other competing interests.