Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), when applied in packages that combine a number of measures with complementary effects, were unequivocally effective in reducing the spread of infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, a major Royal Society report has found. NPIs are measures that are not drugs or vaccines aimed at reducing transmission of an infectious disease. The report, COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, reviewed the scientific evidence ga.
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Despite some experts questioning whether they were ever necessary, other non-pharmaceutical interventions such as face masks also reduced transmission of the virus, UK researchers found.
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