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Background
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is an emerging infectious disease of pandemic proportions. Healthcare workers in Singapore working in high‐risk areas were mandated to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 face mask and protective eyewear while attending to patients.
Objectives
We sought to determine the risk factors associated with the development of de novo PPE‐associated...