Mitigate the effects of home confinement on children during the COVID-19 outbreak
The LancetPublished 1 March 2020Open access
Guanghai Wang, Yunting Zhang, Jin Zhao, Jun Zhang, Fan Jiang
Citations2,157
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With the imminent pandemic, health authorities need to decide rapidly whether they should adopt mass masking in their own localities and make advance preparations to avoid confusion and chaos in the anticipated challenges ahead.
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