Why That Big Randomized Trial On Face Coverings Didn’t Find What Corporate News Claimed It Did

[corbe]

Why That Big Randomized Trial On Face Coverings Didn’t Find What Corporate News Claimed It Did

BY: PAT FIDOPIASTIS
MAY 18, 2022

Science recently published the largest cluster-randomized trial to date on face coverings, a massive study that the science community had been calling for since the start of the pandemic.

As the fear of Covid wanes with its news coverage, one of the remaining vestiges of the narrative involves face coverings. The premier journal Science recently published the largest cluster-randomized trial to date on masks, a massive study that the science community had been calling for since the start of the pandemic.

This study divided rural villages in Bangladesh into those encouraged to wear either medical or cloth masks, or no mask. At the conclusion of the trial, participants volunteered information on whether they experienced “COVID-like symptoms.”

Villagers with self-diagnosed Covid-like symptoms were asked to take an antibody test to determine if they carried SARS-CoV2 antibodies, suggesting they had been infected at some point (i.e., were “seropositive”). The authors concluded that masks reduced “symptomatic seropositivity” by 9.5 percent. In response, The Washington Post triumphantly declared: “We conducted the largest study on masks and COVID-19: They work.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/18/why-that-big-randomized-trial-on-face-coverings-didnt-find-what-corporate-news-claimed-it-did/

[Kamaji]

The Bangladesh study authors did not include the total number of “symptomatic seropositive” villagers in their paper, forcing Recht to calculate those numbers. “There were 1,106 symptomatic individuals confirmed seropositive in the control group (i.e., unmasked) and 1,086 such individuals in the treatment (i.e., cloth or medical mask) group. The difference between the two groups was small: only 20 cases out of over 340,000 individuals over a span of 8 weeks. I have a hard time going from these numbers to the assured conclusions that ‘masks work.’”

In other words, masks made precious little difference.

[Smokin Joe]

In other words, masks made precious little difference.

Which is what you would expect when the pore spaces in the mask exceed the diameter of the virus by a couple orders of magnitude.

[Bigun]

Which is what you would expect when the pore spaces in the mask exceed the diameter of the virus by a couple orders of magnitude.

They are actually quite dangerous!

Face Masks Lead to Breathing Dangerous Levels of Carbon Dioxide Even When Sitting Still, Study Finds

[Smokin Joe]

They are actually quite dangerous!

Face Masks Lead to Breathing Dangerous Levels of Carbon Dioxide Even When Sitting Still, Study Finds

one of the first signs of hypoxia is confusion and loss of judgement...

[berdie]

one of the first signs of hypoxia is confusion and loss of judgement...

Maybe that explains what is wrong with the darn Dems??