At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) in our ED were advised against and actively discouraged from wearing masks when not seeing respiratory patients, as mask wearing was thought to increase the risk of droplet transmission by face touching. The primary objective of the present study was to determine whether HCW using face masks were more or less likely to touch their faces than those not wearing masks.

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戴外科口罩会影响医护人员摸脸吗？一项回顾性队列研究

在 COVID-19 大流行开始时，我们的急诊室的医护人员 (HCW) 被建议不要在没有看到呼吸道患者时戴口罩，并积极劝阻他们不要戴口罩，因为戴口罩被认为会增加通过面部接触传播飞沫的风险。本研究的主要目的是确定戴口罩的医护人员是否比不戴口罩的医护人员更多或更少地触摸他们的脸。