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This is a pretty modest impact, a short duration, and is somewhat clouded by it not being a double blind study. The rate of infection at 7.62% vs 8.62% are par
by treis 5y ago
This is a pretty modest impact, a short duration, and is somewhat clouded by it not being a double blind study.
The rate of infection at 7.62% vs 8.62% are particularly troublesome. As a comparison, it's estimated that 1/3-1/2 of Americans have been infected with Covid.
It's an open question of what the end game would be. Could be that both groups would end at the same infection rate. The masked group might just take longer to get there.
- numbsafari 5y ago> The masked group might just take longer to get there. That's not a bad thing. Remember "flatten the curve"? Avoiding everyone from getting it isn't the goal. Preventing the collapse of the healthcare system is.
- gotoeleven 5y agoWe are now into month 17 of two weeks to flatten the curve. Even in the height of the initial wave hospitals were mostly not overwhelmed. Remember the field hospitals and hospital ships that sat empty in New York City?
- numbsafari 5y agoYes. We just stopped caring. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210906-in-covid-swamped-texas-patients-die-stranded-in-rural-clinics https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210906-in-covid-swam...
- treis 5y ago>That's not a bad thing. Remember "flatten the curve"? That isn't how exponential growth works unfortunately. As long as the exponent is greater than 1 eventually you will get a large peak.
- teddyh 5y agoOnly if a population is infinite.
- jasonlaramburu 5y agoHow could you possibly construct a double blind study on masks?