COVID-19: In the Absence of Vaccination – ‘Mask-the-Nation’

Authors

Roy D. Sleator, Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of TechnologyFollow
Steven Darby, Centre for Advanced Photonics & Process Analysis, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, IrelandFollow
Alan Giltinan, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, IrelandFollow
Niall Smith, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, IrelandFollow

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5846-3938

Document Type

Other

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Disciplines

Biology | Medicine and Health Sciences | Microbiology | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Public Health | Public Health Education and Promotion | Virology

Publication Details

© 2020 Future Medicine Ltd

Editorial published 17 July 2020 in Future Microbiology ahead of the of the printed issued. Available online: https://doi.org/10.2217/fmb-2020-0112

This editorial was produced in collaboration with Cork Institute of Technology's Dept. Biological Sciences, Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) and Centre for Advanced Photonics & Process Analysis (Cappa.)

Abstract

“In the absence of a vaccine, or effective antiviral, one of our only remaining strategies for controlling COVID-19 is to physically block the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the community”

Recommended Citation

D Sleator, R. et al., 2020. COVID-19: in the absence of vaccination – “mask-the-nation.” Future Microbiology. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/fmb-2020-0112.