Examination of factors that impact mask or respirator purchase and usage during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Nicole Bertges,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4937-1031

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• Sachiyo Shearman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Communication, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Satomi Imai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9732-8859

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• Jo Anne G. Balanay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Education and Promotion, Environmental Health Sciences Program, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3173-3293

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• Sinan Sousan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sousans18@ecu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Human Health and the Environment, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5524-6911

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