{"id":14941,"date":"2024-10-25T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14941"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:29:05","slug":"impact-of-universal-masking-in-reducing-the-risk-of-nosocomial-respiratory-viruses-among-people-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/impact-of-universal-masking-in-reducing-the-risk-of-nosocomial-respiratory-viruses-among-people-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of universal masking in reducing the risk of nosocomial respiratory viruses among people with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By <span data-v-63dfaf6e=\"\">Judy Yan<\/span> et al.<\/p>\n<p>Source Cambridge University<\/p>\n<p>From a study on the impact of the masking intervention on nosocomial respiratory viral infections (RVI) in vulnerable sub-populations of people with cancer, crude infection rates decreased from 5.6% preintervention to 4.3% after the masking policy was implemented.<br \/>\nQuarterly trends continued to steadily decline post-intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Our results suggest that universal face masking is associated with reduced non-SARS-CoV-2 nosocomial RVI, providing further evidence to support the continued use of face masks in healthcare settings to protect the health of immunocompromised patients.<\/p>\n<p>Masks certainly work.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/impact-of-universal-masking-in-reducing-the-risk-of-nosocomial-respiratory-viruses-among-people-with-cancer.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Judy Yan et al. Source Cambridge University From a study on the impact of the masking intervention on nosocomial respiratory viral infections (RVI) in vulnerable sub-populations of people with cancer, crude infection rates decreased from 5.6% preintervention to 4.3% after the masking policy was implemented. Quarterly trends continued to steadily decline post-intervention. Our results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-masks-clothing-shoes-socks","category-self-defence-againsts-infection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14944,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions\/14944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}