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200,000 would need to wear face masks to stop one new infection: Norway health agency
The Local ^ | 11 June 2020 08:32 CEST

Posted on 07/06/2021 11:06:37 AM PDT by conservative98

Norway's health authorities have doubled down on their recommendation for those without symptoms not to wear face masks, arguing that the number of infections in Norway was now so low that they were unnecessary.

In a memo, published in English on its website, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said that even in the best case, with medical masks which prevent 40 percent of infections, 200,000 people would have to wear them to prevent just one new infection per week.

This, it said, meant that the likely negative impacts outweighed any benefits “in the current epidemiological situation”.

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.no ...


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KEYWORDS: masks

1 posted on 07/06/2021 11:06:37 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Liars. They are not following the science. Masks do nothing for CCP virus.


2 posted on 07/06/2021 11:10:02 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: conservative98

c1919
3 posted on 07/06/2021 11:10:24 AM PDT by conservative98
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4 posted on 07/06/2021 11:19:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Pajamajan

That’s the point they were making. They are saying non-medical masks don’t work and to stop just one infection it would have to be everyone wearing medical masks and worn correctly and then would only prevent 1 single case out of 200,000 people.


5 posted on 07/06/2021 11:24:12 AM PDT by conservative98
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"Norway's health authorities have doubled down on their recommendation for those without symptoms not to wear face masks,"

Note to myself: Read article before posting.😏

6 posted on 07/06/2021 11:30:54 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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no worries


7 posted on 07/06/2021 11:50:49 AM PDT by conservative98
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Deep ethics question: how many masks are worth 1 life?

Wait, not life. CASE.

Correction: how many masks are worth 1 Chest cold?

Answer: ZERO


8 posted on 07/06/2021 12:13:56 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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