Do Masks Work?

[Blaine Sweeter]

have adult wear masks but why kids? Why outside? Doesn't follow the science.

Sharp rise in cases amongst kids and teens because of the Delta variant.

Nearly 94,000 Kids Got COVID-19 Last Week. They Were 15% Of All New Cases

Cases among children have been steadily growing, but the numbers appear to show that severe illness, hospitalization and death are rare in children infected with the coronavirus.

www.npr.org

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Sharp rise in cases amongst kids and teens because of the Delta variant.

Nearly 94,000 Kids Got COVID-19 Last Week. They Were 15% Of All New Cases

Cases among children have been steadily growing, but the numbers appear to show that severe illness, hospitalization and death are rare in children infected with the coronavirus.

www.npr.org

Why outside? Are they rising outside?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Sharp rise in cases amongst kids and teens because of the Delta variant.

Nearly 94,000 Kids Got COVID-19 Last Week. They Were 15% Of All New Cases

Cases among children have been steadily growing, but the numbers appear to show that severe illness, hospitalization and death are rare in children infected with the coronavirus.

www.npr.org

From your own link:

But the numbers appear to show that severe illness, hospitalization and death are rare in children infected with the coronavirus.


"I'm not seeing any patterns that suggest the virus is more virulent or more serious or more severe in children than it was before this variant appeared," Maldonado added.


The cure cannot be worse than the disease

 

[Lesh]

Why outside? Are they rising outside?

Outside of WHAt?
WTF are you babbling about now?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Outside of WHAt?
WTF are you babbling about now?

Why do kids need to wear masks outside?

Keep up, Jew hater.

 

[Dadoalex]

oh fk no, you don't get to blame unvaccinated for the vaccinate spreading wuhan. Nope, they were vaccinated, they have magic fking juice, they ought to be fking exempt from any exposure. To say otherwise devalues the vaccine. Are you suggesting the vaccine's are shit?

Got reading?

And you lie.
Since last year we've know the best vaccine protection is about 94% with most in the 70-80%

 

[Lesh]

Why do kids need to wear masks outside?

Keep up, Jew hater.

I don’t hate Jews. Just you

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I don’t hate Jews. Just you

You hate someone on a message board? LOL

So easily triggered

 

[Lesh]

You hate someone on a message board? LOL

So easily triggered

Oh well. You earned it

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Oh well. You earned it

I consider it a badge of honor when dealing with trash like you. Thank you.

 

[FA_Q2]

I have posted ON THIS THREAD. Studies that show that even cloth masks protect the wearer.

That better masks protect more completely.

That they protect OTHERS very well

Do I need to post it again?

A post number is nice. I have not read all 30 pages of the thread.

 

[jc456]

I have posted ON THIS THREAD. Studies that show that even cloth masks protect the wearer.

That better masks protect more completely.

That they protect OTHERS very well

Do I need to post it again?

Why does the cdc and fda say you’re wrong? Thought you follow science? You trust them with a vaccine and say they are stupid with masks! Outstanding stupidity dude

 

[jc456]

A post number is nice. I have not read all 30 pages of the thread.

She never posted it. Fda says she’s wrong

 

[Lesh]

Why does the cdc and fda say you’re wrong? Thought you follow science? You trust them with a vaccine and say they are stupid with masks! Outstanding stupidity dude

They do not

 

[jc456]

They do not

I posted it in here! Go read it.

more evidence you don’t do science!

 

[Lesh]

A post number is nice. I have not read all 30 pages of the thread.

I'll do better than that

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

www.cdc.gov

 

[Lesh]

Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission​

Data regarding the “real-world” effectiveness of community masking are limited to observational and epidemiological studies.

• An investigation of a high-exposure event, in which 2 symptomatically ill hair stylists interacted for an average of 15 minutes with each of 139 clients during an 8-day period, found that none of the 67 clients who subsequently consented to an interview and testing developed infection. The stylists and all clients universally wore masks in the salon as required by local ordinance and company policy at the time.36
• In a study of 124 Beijing households with > 1 laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, mask use by the index patient and family contacts before the index patient developed symptoms reduced secondary transmission within the households by 79%.37
• A retrospective case-control study from Thailand documented that, among more than 1,000 persons interviewed as part of contact tracing investigations, those who reported having always worn a mask during high-risk exposures experienced a greater than 70% reduced risk of acquiring infection compared with persons who did not wear masks under these circumstances.38
• A study of an outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an environment notable for congregate living quarters and close working environments, found that use of face coverings on-board was associated with a 70% reduced risk.39
• Investigations involving infected passengers aboard flights longer than 10 hours strongly suggest that masking prevented in-flight transmissions, as demonstrated by the absence of infection developing in other passengers and crew in the 14 days following exposure.40,41

 

[Lesh]

At least ten studies have confirmed the benefit of universal masking in community level analyses: in a unified hospital system,42 a German city,43 two U.S. states,44, 45 a panel of 15 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.,46, 47 as well as both Canada48 and the U.S. 49-51 nationally. Each analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organizational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly. Two of these studies46, 47 and an additional analysis of data from 200 countries that included the U.S.51 also demonstrated reductions in mortality. Another 10-site study showed reductions in hospitalization growth rates following mask mandate implementation 49. A separate series of cross-sectional surveys in the U.S. suggested that a 10% increase in self-reported mask wearing tripled the likelihood of stopping community transmission.53 An economic analysis using U.S. data found that, given these effects, increasing universal masking by 15% could prevent the need for lockdowns and reduce associated losses of up to $1 trillion or about 5% of gross domestic product.47

Two studies have been improperly characterized by some sources as showing that surgical or cloth masks offer no benefit. A community-based randomized control trial in Denmark during 2020 assessed whether the use of surgical masks reduced the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers (personal protection) by more than 50%. Findings were inconclusive,54 most likely because the actual reduction in infections was lower. The study was too small (i.e., enrolled about 0.1% of the population) to assess whether masks could decrease transmission from wearers to others (source control). A second study of 14 hospitals in Vietnam during 2015 found that cloth masks were inferior to surgical masks for protection against clinical upper respiratory illness or laboratory-confirmed viral infection.55 The study had a number of limitations including the lack of a true control (no mask) group for comparison, limited source control as hospitalized patients and staff were not masked, unblinded study arm assignments potentially biasing self-reporting of illness, and the washing and re-use of cloth masks by users introducing the risk of infection from self-washing. A follow up study in 2020 found that healthcare workers whose cloth masks were laundered by the hospital were protected equally as well as those that wore medical masks.56

 

[Lesh]

Filtration for Wearer Protection​

Studies 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. In addition to the number of layers and choice of materials, other techniques can improve wearer protection by improving fit and thereby filtration capacity. Examples include but are not limited to mask fitters, knotting-and-tucking the ear loops of medical procedures masks, using a cloth mask placed over a medical procedure mask, and nylon hosiery sleeves.31-35

 

[basquebromance]

try it!