Posted on 04/07/2023 8:56:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Requirements to wear surgical masks in a large London hospital during the first 10 months of omicron activity (December 2021 to September 2022) made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark (15–18 April).
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The low-tech, low-cost intervention without well-established benefit was reasonable early in the pandemic. However, with a reduction in the severity of COVID-19 disease, in later variants, the risk-benefit balance of masks has been called into question.
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The analysis found that during a general community surge in SARS-CoV-2 infection in June 2022, removal of the mask policy was not associated with a statistically significant change in the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the study group—with SARS-CoV-2 infection no higher than the rate when masks were obligatory.
What's more, the authors did not observe a delayed effect, with no change in the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate during the time when the mask-wearing policy was removed (weeks 26 to 40).
Similarly, the control group who continued wearing masks, found no immediate or delayed change in infection rate.
"Our study found no evidence that mandatory masking of staff impacts the rate of hospital SARS-CoV-2 infection with the omicron variant," says lead author Dr. Ben Patterson from St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. "That doesn't mean masks are worthless against omicron, but their real-world benefit in isolation appears to be, at best, modest in a health care setting."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Gee, no kidding. What WE knew.
Now they put this out.
I saw a poor old guy wearing TWO masks, today, at the grocery store.
How he could even breathe through TWO masks, is beyond me.
Made no difference and likely made things worse.
February 10, 2021: Covid masks save lives. The CDC says double-masking may save more.
I have bumble bees coming into my yard so I built a chain link fence to keep them out. My neighbor said I was an idiot. I was sad because he called me an idiot. I still have bumble bees though
Let them wear their masks.
It warns me of who to avoid so I don’t get sucked into their world of fear and paranoia.
May have?
Tards gonna tard.
I had a suspicion that the Omicron variant did not naturally occur but was a result of Chinese bio-warfare. Just when the vaccine program was entering the herd immunity phase, in comes a version that is more infectious and nullifies the progress made. Could China have taken the virus and put it through more gain of function technology and release it to do further damage to the U.S. economy? With comrade Joe Biden, they could have done anything they wanted. And they did!
“How he could even breathe through TWO masks, is beyond me.”
I see mostly women wearing them. I saw a woman pushing a baby carriage wearing one.
This afternoon I was outside the apt I live in and opened the door for the lady mailman approaching and she immediately pulled up her face mask that was under her chin....
A) stupid she believed a face mask works.
B) she was not wearing one until she saw me.
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