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The rough numbers are given in the article, you just have to scroll down: ~10% fewer cases. The paper was also pretty easy to find based on the information in t
by AlotOfReading 5y ago
The rough numbers are given in the article, you just have to scroll down: ~10% fewer cases. The paper was also pretty easy to find based on the information in the article, but it's not directly linked. That's pretty common in non-scientific publications like The Atlantic.
Here's the paper: https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-masking-covid-19-cluster-randomized-trial-bangladesh https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-...
- OneEyedRobot 5y ago"The proportion of individuals with COVID-like symptoms was 7.62% (N=13,273) in the intervention arm and 8.62% (N=13,893) in the control arm."
- AlotOfReading 5y agoYes, that's an 11% reduction from the control group. From TLA: The randomly assigned pro-masking policy reduced the number of confirmed, symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the intervention group by nearly 10 percent, relative to the control group. From the paper: The intervention led to a 9.3% reduction in symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence [...] and an 11.9% reduction in the prevalence of COVID-like symptoms