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Unravelling the role of the mandatory use of face covering masks for the control of SARS-CoV-2 in schools: a quasi-experimental study nested in a population-based cohort in Catalonia (Spain)
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  • Ermengol Coma Sistemes d’Informació dels Serveis d’Atenció Primària (SISAP), Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martí Català Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leonardo Méndez-Boo Sistemes d’Informació dels Serveis d’Atenció Primària (SISAP), Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sergio Alonso Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eduardo Hermosilla Sistemes d’Informació dels Serveis d’Atenció Primària (SISAP), Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain IDIAP Jordi Gol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Enric Alvarez-Lacalle Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David Pino Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Manuel Medina Sistemes d’Informació dels Serveis d’Atenció Primària (SISAP), Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laia Asso Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anna Gatell Equip Pediatria Territorial Alt Penedès-Garraf, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Quique Bassat ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Manhica, Maputo, Mozambique Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ariadna Mas Direcció Assistencial d'Atenció Primària i a la Comunitat, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Antoni Soriano-Arandes Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Department of Infectious Diseases, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francesc Fina Avilés Sistemes d’Informació dels Serveis d’Atenció Primària (SISAP), Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Clara Prats Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; tsorianoarandes{at}gmail.com
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Coma E, Català M, Méndez-Boo L, et al
Unravelling the role of the mandatory use of face covering masks for the control of SARS-CoV-2 in schools: a quasi-experimental study nested in a population-based cohort in Catalonia (Spain)
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2023;108:131-136.

Publication history

  • Received March 22, 2022
  • Accepted August 5, 2022
  • First published August 23, 2022.
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January 19, 2023

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