Nature Communications (Jun 2021)
Association of social distancing and face mask use with risk of COVID-19
- Sohee Kwon,
- Amit D. Joshi,
- Chun-Han Lo,
- David A. Drew,
- Long H. Nguyen,
- Chuan-Guo Guo,
- Wenjie Ma,
- Raaj S. Mehta,
- Fatma Mohamed Shebl,
- Erica T. Warner,
- Christina M. Astley,
- Jordi Merino,
- Benjamin Murray,
- Jonathan Wolf,
- Sebastien Ourselin,
- Claire J. Steves,
- Tim D. Spector,
- Jaime E. Hart,
- Mingyang Song,
- Trang VoPham,
- Andrew T. Chan
Affiliations
- Sohee Kwon
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Amit D. Joshi
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Chun-Han Lo
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- David A. Drew
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Long H. Nguyen
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Chuan-Guo Guo
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Wenjie Ma
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Raaj S. Mehta
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Fatma Mohamed Shebl
- Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Erica T. Warner
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Christina M. Astley
- Division of Endocrinology and Computational Epidemiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Jordi Merino
- Diabetes Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Benjamin Murray
- School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London
- Jonathan Wolf
- Zoe Limited
- Sebastien Ourselin
- School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London
- Claire J. Steves
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London
- Tim D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London
- Jaime E. Hart
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Mingyang Song
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Trang VoPham
- Epidemiology Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Andrew T. Chan
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24115-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Estimating the effectiveness of COVID-19 control measures requires large prospective data including symptoms and personal risk factors. Here, the authors used data from smartphone-based application and found that individual face mask use was associated with a 64% reduced risk of COVID-19 symptoms.
