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It's almost like these interventions can't be maintained indefinitely and are therefore stopgaps at best. With the CDC's own study saying masks reduce transmiss
by AndrewBissell 6y ago
It's almost like these interventions can't be maintained indefinitely and are therefore stopgaps at best. With the CDC's own study saying masks reduce transmission by all of 2%, I doubt it was lack of mask wearing that made the difference.
There's still no Armageddon happening anywhere.
- NationalPark 6y agoPlease stop posting lies about the effectiveness of masks. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536
- AndrewBissell 6y agoYour own link has several studies with numbers in the same ballpark as what I cited. Here's the CDC study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
- dehrmann 6y agoHere's the "2%." https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm#F1_down https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm#F1_down It's "percentage point change," which I read as absolute percentage points. It's different from you what said, "masks reduce transmission by all of 2%," but it also looks like a garbage number because you can't average percents like that and get meaningful data, and the result is hard to interpret. If masks drop the growth rate by 2 percentage point, two percentage points from what?