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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FFS give it a rest.

But also, here's an ACTUAL study: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/mandatory-masking-schools-reduced-covid-19-cases-during-delta-surge[/quote]

Do you understand the meaning of quotation marks? I know this DCPS data isn't a study. But looking at the DCPS/charter data would be a lot more useful than comparing communities that are fundamentally different in so many other ways, which is what the heavily confounded study you posted did.

We shouldn't give this a rest because given that many schools around here are still imposing a mandate and there is still the possibility of mandates coming back in DCPS next year (winter surge), this is unfortunately still a live topic. It is a shame that the NIH has failed to conduct a randomized-controlled trial to find out if school mask mandates work or not.

If you want to look at the best studies we have on this issue, look at the ones I cited from Spain and Finland:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4046809

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.04.22272833v1[/quote]

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