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>Neither tests nor masks will change this fact. According to the original article, masks do change this fact.
by jasonlaramburu 5y ago
>Neither tests nor masks will change this fact.
According to the original article, masks do change this fact.
- helge9210 5y agoPlease, read the article again. Masks might affect COVID-19 spread. They don't prevent people from dying eventually.
- jasonlaramburu 5y ago> They don't prevent people from dying eventually. The paper does not say this. It shows an 11% reduction in spread in the group that was encouraged to wear surgical masks. Masks were not mandated, only encouraged. It also shows that 5 months after the researchers stopped encouraging mask-wearing, compliance dropped by 14%. So masks reduce the spread, and encouraging people to wear them leads to higher compliance.