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Sep 3, 2021 6:43 PM |
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Originally Posted by Camelback
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Same.
Face coverings don't actually stop the spread of a virus. If they did, then this pandemic would've ended in the spring of 2020.
There's a reason that those dealing with Covid, aren't wearing a cheap face covering, because they would all get sick if they did. Instead they're wearing an N95 mask, gloves, usually eye goggles, and a gown.
Face coverings and cheapie masks increase the amount of times you touch your face, constantly adjusting it as you move around, talk to people.
Touching your face will get you sick.
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With 2 active threads on covid it's hard to keep up.
But touching your face probably won't give you covid. "The science" has now pretty much reached a consensus that covid is spread primarily if not almost exclusively by aeroborn droplets of various sizes.
As for masks, I guess I have to repost the following here:
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'Masks are effective': Stanford Medicine study finds surgical masks help prevent COVID in Bangladesh
Annie Vainshtein
Sep. 1, 2021
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 3:46 p.m.
A new study by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has found that just several low-cost interventions can drastically increase mask use in rural communities, and for those who opt to wear them, surgical masks help in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The researchers analyzed a population of almost 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh over the period of November 2020 to April 2021. Their findings, which were released Wednesday, found thatthose who lived in villages where surgical masks were being promoted were 11% less likely than those in control villages to become infected with COVID-19.
And in people over the age of 60, the impact increased to nearly 35%, the report found.
“What I really would like people to take away from this is to see that we have very rigorous and systematic evidence that masks are effective,” said Ashley Styczynski, a lead author on the study and an infectious disease fellow at Stanford. She added: “I think there were many people who have remained doubtful because of the lack of a randomized control trial around this type of question.”
Four tools — using no-cost masks, offering distribution, having volunteers go around town and remind people to wear them, and modeling through community leadership — were key to improving mask-wearing in the villages, according to the study, which also found that public signage and text messages were far less effective for the communities.
The findings showed that 13% of people in the control villages wore a mask properly, while in the trial villages, 42% of people did so.
The study also looked at the increases of symptoms and positive antibodies among those who were wearing masks versus the control village groups, and found that the villages which included these interventions — for both surgical and cloth masks — had 9% fewer cases of symptomatic COVID-19, and that number increased slightly for surgical masks.
The team is also designing a follow up study to take a deeper look at some of the cases which may not have been reported, such as asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases of COVID-19.
It’s important to note that the study was conducted before the delta variant had surfaced in Bangladesh. The alpha variant of the coronavirus was the primary strain at the time of the findings, Styczynski said.
Natural immunity and vaccination could also have been a factor: a small cohort sampled at baseline found that 25% of people had antibodies against COVID-19 and only 2% of the population had been vaccinated when the study began.
The interventions from the study are now being implemented in other parts of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Latin America, and Pakistan.
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Can we now lay to rest the notion that "masks don't work"? |
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