"And as a bonus, the multilayered risk reduction approach can even decrease the number of times we get the flu or a bad chest cold." Anecdotal confirmation her

"And as a bonus, the multilayered risk reduction approach can even decrease the number of times we get the flu or a bad chest cold." Anecdotal confirmation here. Many people are saying they haven't been getting sick at all this year. Lines up with an article I read (can't find it, unfortunately) near the beginning of the pandemic that made this point solidly. A reporter in Shanghai during SARS continued to send her children to school during months of near-lockdown. Between the masks, and the distancing, and the handwashing, not only did no one get SARS, none of the kids were out sick for any sort of respiratory illness.