Coronavirus
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More fuel to the fire
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/…
About 4,860 participants completed the study. The researchers had hoped that masks would cut the infection rate by half among wearers. Instead, 42 people in the mask group, or 1.8 percent, got infected, compared with 53 in the unmasked group, or 2.1 percent. The difference was not statistically significant.
“Our study gives an indication of how much you gain from wearing a mask,” said Dr. Henning Bundgaard, lead author of the study and a cardiologist at the University of Copenhagen. “Not a lot.”
Dr. Mette Kalager, a researcher at Telemark Hospital in Norway and the Harvard School of Public Health, was persuaded. The study showed that “although there might be a symbolic effect,” she wrote in an email, “the effect of wearing a mask does not substantially reduce risk” for wearers.
- Great, thanks for the good news. Please stick with uploading toilets and what not. You have become a real bummer.utopian
- Because the study is wrong or because it doesnt adhere to your official party line?drgs
- This is a 0-1 thing, but what about the amount of shit you're exposed to? Obviously the less you will inhale, the better. And this is where masks come.********
- I refuse to believe it!yuekit
- doesn't mean much on its own - it's pretty specific to Denmark. Also absolutely no info on what the participants were doing throughout the trialFax_Benson
- ..who they had contact with, how they behaved etc.Fax_Benson
- Yeah if you read the study it seems kind of questionable. They basically just told some people to wear masks and others not to. But aside from that no effort toyuekit
- "Participants reported their own test results; mask use was not independently verified, and users may not have worn them correctly."drgs
- no info on what exposure each had.Fax_Benson
- analyze the different conditions they were exposed to in their daily lives.yuekit
- 90% of people are functional illiterates and you cannot make everyone to follow the protocol down to the letter (simply because people are retards)drgs
- Its trying to tame the chaosdrgs
- Seems to have worked in Asia where mask-wearing is a normal everyday thing. Very few infections compared to western countries.yuekit
- Yup. Just fucking wear a mask (and wear it properly, not on your chin). MAGAfucks ain't helping, shouting all that bullshit and spreading the Wuhan flu.********
- I wear my mask. Anyway, this is the first study about face masksdrgs
- Face masks also help contain spread if you are contaminated. That's what they are for in the first place.dmay
- This was a fact from the beginning, masks don’t really protect you but if you’re infected it helps stop the spread so nothing new here_niko
- And since most people spread it asymptomatically without knowing about it, it makes sense for all to wear it._niko
- I'd also suggest "normal" people in Denmark are a lot more socialy responsible than most Americans.BusterBoy
- I'm from Denmark and I'm sceptical about this study. We have generally had a much lower infection than other countries hence less chance to catch it in general.Nutter