With hospitals and universities talking about implementing facemasks this fall, another study from earlier this year has concluded that masks, even the N95s, did little when it came to stopping the virus from spreading, the City Journal reports.
And it was not just anyone who came to this conclusion.
It was an analysis of data conducted by Cochrane, considered the gold standard when it comes to evaluating medical studies.
The City Journal writes:
“It has published a new Cochrane review of the literature on masks, including trials during the Covid-19 pandemic in hospitals and in community settings. The 15 trials compared outcomes of wearing of surgical masks versus wearing no masks, and also versus N95 masks. The review, conducted by a dozen researchers from six countries, concludes that wearing any kind of face covering “probably makes little or no difference” in reducing the spread of respiratory illness.”
Of course, once COVID was politicized, the truth was deemed irrelevant, as the City Journal explains:
“The CDC’s director, Rochelle Walensky, remains determined to ignore the best research on masks, as she made clear in a congressional hearing earlier this month. “Our masking guidance doesn’t really change with time,” she said when asked how the new review from Cochrane would affect the agency’s policies. “This is an important study,” she conceded, “but the Cochrane review only includes randomized clinical trials, and, as you can imagine, many of the randomized clinical trials were for other respiratory viruses.”
READ: Approximately Zero
RELATED:
READ: Blue face masks are only 10% effective in preventing COVID infection, new study finds
OpentheWord.org 
Leave a comment