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It's good they published this, but it's effectively a zero for any data either way. They did manage to find a small benefit to hand-washing, but overall there's
by mmastrac 4y ago
It's good they published this, but it's effectively a zero for any data either way. They did manage to find a small benefit to hand-washing, but overall there's no way to judge mask use as a clear benefit or not.
"Evidence is limited by imprecision and heterogeneity for these subjective outcomes."
- rippercushions 4y agoHowever, if there was a strong effect, it would have shown up in this study. So now we know that even if masks do "work", the effect is relatively small at best.
- mmastrac 4y agoThat's not what the study says at all.