The great Danish mask study is concluded

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We have a publisher. Annals of Internal Medicine  https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Annals Of Internal Medicine is a weekly peer reviewed general medicine journal by the American College of Physicians. It has a readership base of 159,000 members that includes American College of Physicians members and other physicians worldwide.

From the Gray Lady: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/health/coronavirus-masks-denmark.html

Danish Study Questions Use of Masks to Protect Wearers

• Nov. 18, 2020, 9:00 a.m. ET

Masks prevent people from transmitting the coronavirus to others, scientists now agree. But a new trial failed to document protection from the virus among the wearers.
Few public health measures have ever been as contentious as the requirement to wear masks in public. Many Americans and public health experts view the measure as a civic obligation necessary to halt the pandemic now rampant in the United States. Others see it as an ineffectual infringement on personal liberty.

A new study, the first of its kind, is likely to inflame the controversy. Researchers in Denmark reported on Wednesday that surgical masks did not protect the wearers against infection with the coronavirus in a large randomized clinical trial.


From Reuters:  https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-facemasks/danish-study-finds-face-masks-provide-limited-protection-to-wearer-idINKBN27Y216

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so the conclusion says masks reduce the spread but don’t but don’t protect the person wearing the mask as much.  Think that has kind of been the general perception from the get go.  So in your opinion these are "yuge", "much anticipated" and "suppressed" results, whatever.    

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The peer-reviewed results do scientifically contradict a large part of last week's CDC announcement.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html

This part:
Filtration for Personal ProtectionStudies demonstrate that cloth mask materials can also reduce wearers’ exposure to infectious droplets through filtration, including filtration of fine droplets and particles less than 10 microns. The relative filtration effectiveness of various masks has varied widely across studies, in large part due to variation in experimental design and particle sizes analyzed. Multiple layers of cloth with higher thread counts have demonstrated superior performance compared to single layers of cloth with lower thread counts, in some cases filtering nearly 50% of fine particles less than 1 micron .14,17-29 Some materials (e.g., polypropylene) may enhance filtering effectiveness by generating triboelectric charge (a form of static electricity) that enhances capture of charged particles18,30 while others (e.g., silk) may help repel moist droplets31 and reduce fabric wetting and thus maintain breathability and comfort.

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Honest to God, this whole thread is hilarious. The internet has spawned a ton of 'online doctors' in the last 10 years, lmao. Are the co-pays the same?  :p

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LOL...

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