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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some initial critiques of Pediatrics study:

https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1502111769560444931?s=20&t=OsXasgXI2JgnRxAL6fe9QA

Of note:

The masking group had 10x the rate of primary infections as the mask optional groups.  (so at least a bad control group)

Secondary transmission is based on contact tracing, and schools with masks said that if you were wearing a mask then there were no linked infections to that.  Ergo, you find less secondary transmission.  Not because it did or did not happen, but because you didn't look.
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Also important to point out that the study concludes that &quot;Secondary transmission across the cohort was modest (&lt;10% of total infections)&quot;. Given that we cannot hope to eliminate Covid anymore, and given the extremely low risk the virus poses to children, we should balance this modest rate of in-school transmission (modest in both masked and unmasked districts) against the social and educational downsides of masking kids.[/quote]

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