Lessons from Covid: Effect of community mask use on infant hospitalizations for respiratory infections
Isabel Bullón-González MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Methodology, Writing - review & editing, Formal analysis
Search for more papers by this authorNuria Cabeza-Arce MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorPilar Andrés-Porras MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorInés Ferrer-Ortiz MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
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Alfredo Cano PhD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Correspondence Alfredo Cano, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, and School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Methodology
Search for more papers by this authorIsabel Bullón-González MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Methodology, Writing - review & editing, Formal analysis
Search for more papers by this authorNuria Cabeza-Arce MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorPilar Andrés-Porras MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorInés Ferrer-Ortiz MD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Alfredo Cano PhD
Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Correspondence Alfredo Cano, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Rio Hortega University Hospital, and School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Methodology
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