In breaking news, masks don't work, the CDC doesn't really care. Walk into Fred Meyers and everyone in line at the pharmacy has to wear a mask pursuant to CDC guidance. Now, you can pick up your prescription, then take off your mask and go buy groceries and wait in the check out line because a grocery check out line is completely different than standing in line to get a prescription. Sort of like putting on a mask and walking to your table in a restaurant and then it was okay to take off your mask. Of course, this makes sense to mello and the dazzler and the people they vote for. Anyway, the pandemic ends on May 11th by imperial decree from the dementia patient who knows everything about the chicom crud and epidemiology.
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Massive "Gold Standard" Meta-Study on Masks Finds That Masking Makes "Little to No Difference" in Covid Protection
—Ace
A meta-study is a study that doesn't create its own data set, but instead takes the data sets of already-published studies and re-analyzes that data, combining it into one big pool of information.
JustTheNews:
'Little to no difference': Massive mask meta-study undermines remaining COVID mandates
Researchers in "gold standard" collaboration struggle to find benefit from surgical over no masks, or N95 respirators over surgical. Findings buoy warnings by PPE expert that even "perfect rate of capture" by N95s can't stop COVID transmission.
An international research collaboration that reviewed several dozen rigorous studies of "physical interventions" against influenza and COVID-19 through last year failed to find even a modest effect on infection or illness rates from masks of all qualities.
Published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, run by the British evidence-based medicine charity Cochrane, the study raises new doubts about ongoing mask mandates and public health recommendations worldwide.
The CDC is still recommending masking in areas with "high" transmission levels -- fewer than 4% of U.S. counties -- as well as indoor masking to protect high-risk contacts in "medium" counties (27%).[/b]
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its "temporary masking protocol" in early January was a "mandate," following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
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The team added 11 new randomized controlled trials and "cluster-RCTs," which randomize groups of subjects rather than individuals, to its prior review from November 2020, for a total of 78 studies. The additions included COVID pandemic trials: two from Mexico and one each from England, Norway, Denmark and Bangladesh, the latter two well known internationally.
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them "exactly as instructed."
https://ace.mu.nu/
Massive "Gold Standard" Meta-Study on Masks Finds That Masking Makes "Little to No Difference" in Covid Protection
—Ace
A meta-study is a study that doesn't create its own data set, but instead takes the data sets of already-published studies and re-analyzes that data, combining it into one big pool of information.
JustTheNews:
'Little to no difference': Massive mask meta-study undermines remaining COVID mandates
Researchers in "gold standard" collaboration struggle to find benefit from surgical over no masks, or N95 respirators over surgical. Findings buoy warnings by PPE expert that even "perfect rate of capture" by N95s can't stop COVID transmission.
An international research collaboration that reviewed several dozen rigorous studies of "physical interventions" against influenza and COVID-19 through last year failed to find even a modest effect on infection or illness rates from masks of all qualities.
Published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, run by the British evidence-based medicine charity Cochrane, the study raises new doubts about ongoing mask mandates and public health recommendations worldwide.
The CDC is still recommending masking in areas with "high" transmission levels -- fewer than 4% of U.S. counties -- as well as indoor masking to protect high-risk contacts in "medium" counties (27%).[/b]
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its "temporary masking protocol" in early January was a "mandate," following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
...
The team added 11 new randomized controlled trials and "cluster-RCTs," which randomize groups of subjects rather than individuals, to its prior review from November 2020, for a total of 78 studies. The additions included COVID pandemic trials: two from Mexico and one each from England, Norway, Denmark and Bangladesh, the latter two well known internationally.
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them "exactly as instructed."
