a few more
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/what_good_do_the_masks_do_really.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
That is a throwaway line in that paper, that paper is not a study, that paper contains five references, none of which have anything to do with wearing or not wearing masks. It is an unsupported claim with no scientific value.