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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A new study found that masking did not have any effect on the spread of COVID-19.[/quote]

No, that's not what it said.

[quote]"Wearing face masks played a valuable role in reducing transmission of COVID during the first two years of the pandemic," Paul Hunter, a professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., told Newsweek.

"By themselves, they were never going to be able to eliminate transmission, but they certainly reduced it. Very early in the pandemic we estimated, based on pre-COVID data, that if everyone wore masks we could reduce transmission by about 20 percent."[/quote]

After the first Omicron wave, they noticed that masks didn't seem as effective, probably because Omicron was so much more infectious.

[quote]But this doesn't mean that masks are completely useless. "There is good evidence that one of the factors behind how sick you get is the size of the dose of virus to which you are exposed," Hunter said. "So, one suggestion is that if you wear a mask and still catch COVID, you get a lower dose and so likely have less severe disease."

So does that mean we should all still be wearing face masks? "I think for most of us the answer is no," Hunter said. "Most of us have already had multiple COVID infections by now. But people who are at increased risk of severe disease may still benefit."[/quote]

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-face-masks-infections-omicron-1901033[/quote]

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