Masks in hospitals 'made no difference to Covid infection rates'
Researchers from St George's Hospital in London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022.
Now who would have thought this
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They made a big difference to the companies that made them!
And to the litter on the streets and in the seas.
And to the litter on the streets and in the seas.
Better tell the surgeons they can do away with masks when carrying out operations then.
The article does not mention immunity which would have been acquired by both staff and members of the public.
and doctors wear masks because ?
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Place the device then retire to a safe distance.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
The use of surgical facemasks is ubiquitous in surgical practice. Facemasks have long been thought to confer protection to the patient from wound infection and contamination from the operating surgeon and other members of the surgical staff. More recently, ...
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...and you need to read the whole article. The research target is biased and does not say in any way shape or form that masks made no difference.
It's just selective Wail bollax designed to appease morons. Worked too.
Nothing to see here.
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Look at you getting all grown up and sciency. Brings a tear to my eye...
One has to know what makes you morons tick.Well good job you keep
Up with the wail articles
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From Hitchens today. Read the bold print, which is my emphasis:
Yet another survey, this time from St George’s Hospital in South-West London, undermines the view that facemasks prevent the spread of Covid. Researchers reported that ‘high risk wards, including ones treating cancer patients and intensive care units, retained the mask obligation.
‘But removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a “statistically significant change” in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate’. Equally, they ‘did not observe a delayed effect’ in the Covid infection rate once the policy was removed.
This was despite transmission of the virus spiking within the community. Those in high-risk wards – the control group – who continued wearing masks, also ‘found no immediate or delayed change in the infection rate’.
Despite all this, we are told: ‘That doesn’t mean masks are worthless against Omicron.’
If you say so. We have now had three surveys, the Danish mask study, the Cochrane Review and this one, all pointing the same way – but still the mask fanatics won’t give up. This is surely politics, not science.
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I've bolded a bit as well,
Yet another survey, this time from St George’s Hospital in South-West London, undermines the view that facemasks prevent the spread of Covid. Researchers reported that ‘high risk wards, including ones treating cancer patients and intensive care units, retained the mask obligation.
‘But removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a “statistically significant change” in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate’. Equally, they ‘did not observe a delayed effect’ in the Covid infection rate once the policy was removed.
This was despite transmission of the virus spiking within the community. Those in high-risk wards – the control group – who continued wearing masks, also ‘found no immediate or delayed change in the infection rate’.
Despite all this, we are told: ‘That doesn’t mean masks are worthless against Omicron.’
If you say so. We have now had three surveys, the Danish mask study, the Cochrane Review and this one, all pointing the same way – but still the mask fanatics won’t give up. This is surely politics, not science.
During the mask period, I saw many BAMEs and Orthodox Jews refusing to wear masks. Guess who the highest groups to suffer from it were? Coincidence?
Probably not, unfortunately they also have disproportionate amounts of customer facing roles where working form home isn't possible and poor trust in the authorities and low vaccine take-up.
It's all part of the same mess, but trying to untangle cause from effect is hard.
