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Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment
medRxiv ^ | 05/25/2021 | Damian Guerra, Daniel J Guerra

Posted on 05/26/2021 3:10:59 PM PDT by Fury

Results: Case growth was not significantly different between mandate and non-mandate states at low or high transmission rates, and surges were equivocal. Mask use predicted lower case growth at low, but not high transmission rates. Growth rates were comparable between states in the top and bottom mask use quintiles adjusted for normalized total cases early in the pandemic and unadjusted after peak Fall-Winter infections. Mask use did not predict Summer 2020 case growth for non-Northeast states or Fall-Winter 2020 growth for all states. Conclusions: Mask mandates and use are not associated with slower state-level COVID-19 spread during COVID-19 growth surges. COVID-19 containment requires future research and implementation of existing efficacious strategies.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; masks; sarscov2
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1 posted on 05/26/2021 3:10:59 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

There’s ‘gonna be some blowback on this...


2 posted on 05/26/2021 3:12:24 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

No surprise there. Face diapers don’t work. Neither do lockdowns or “social distancing”


3 posted on 05/26/2021 3:13:03 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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Actually, I think that social distancing does work. If you’re not near people, you’re not getting COVID-19.

Of course in the process, society blows up.


4 posted on 05/26/2021 3:15:10 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

And study showing minimal spread from opening schools...
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2021/04/22/covid-19-reopening-indiana-schools-increased-coronavirus-spread-safe/7222994002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

“Some mistakes were made...”


5 posted on 05/26/2021 3:18:06 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: Fury

Everything takes a study of things critical thinking people already knew like the worthlessness of masks and lock down. This applies to the jab. Society now is spoonfed information fake and real to control.


6 posted on 05/26/2021 3:25:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Fury

true social distancing is impossible for most. We need groceries, medicines, dr visits and other necessities not to mention the mental health issues isolation causes


7 posted on 05/26/2021 3:29:48 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Fury

There NEVER has been Any “Science” demonstrating a diaper on your face would prevent the Transmission of a Respiratory Virus. Furthermore, the Wells Evaporation Theory concluded your spiddle travels 1 meter, but the 2 subsequent Evaporation Studies concluded that the Aerosol you Exhale travels 21 feet even with a Diaper and the spiddle is meaningless for a respiratory virus.


8 posted on 05/26/2021 3:32:30 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Fury
Mask = Chain link fence, Virus = Mosquito.

How ignorant do you have to be to no understand that? Most Americans have no idea of the size or length of things. (Thank lazy-ass, illiterate, leftist teachers for that.) 15-days to flatten the curve? How long did that go really go on? The answer is long enough to destroy American small businesses and allow the Walmarts and Amazons that pimp Chinese crap to flourish.

This has been political from the very start. There are no coincides. There are no mistakes. Every last one of the MF'ers need to pay the price.

9 posted on 05/26/2021 3:36:41 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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Only the N95 masks work...


10 posted on 05/26/2021 3:52:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Only the N95 masks work...

If properly fitted and worn for short durations.

11 posted on 05/26/2021 3:55:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/03/08/rural-peaster-isd-texas-masks-distancing-students-academically/

‘Our Kids Have Thrived’: Rural Peaster ISD Never Required Masks Or Distancing And Most Students Are On Track Academically


12 posted on 05/26/2021 3:55:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: ConservativeInPA
Mask = Chain link fence, Virus = Mosquito.

No, those sizes are incorect, and at the scale of 1 micron the mask has an electrostatic effect. N95 masks stop viruses. Synthetic surgical masks stop most sizes of droplets, although not individual virus particles. Cloth masks (cotton) do nothing because there's no electrostatic filtering.

13 posted on 05/26/2021 4:01:16 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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Jam your face diaper where the sun doesn’t shine.


14 posted on 05/26/2021 4:02:51 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Fury

I smell thousands of lawsuits. Not enough lawyers?


15 posted on 05/26/2021 4:03:17 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: ConservativeInPA
You just admitted N95 masks work...
16 posted on 05/26/2021 4:03:33 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Fury

Oh No, whats next? they going to tell us water really is wet?


17 posted on 05/26/2021 5:58:50 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: palmer

but a viron is .1-.2 microns


18 posted on 05/26/2021 5:59:50 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: palmer

You just admitted N95 masks work..
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Only if properly fitted. How many people wearing the same N95 mask for weeks on end had them professionally fitted? You just admitted your ignorance


19 posted on 05/26/2021 6:56:30 PM PDT by Joshua (Keep paying attention to the shiny orb!)
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To: eyeamok
but a viron is .1-.2 microns

Yes, most masks won't stop them except a properly fitted N95. But masks are meant to stop droplets, not individual virus particles. We can glean from of the spread events that a good proportion of the spread is from droplets (e.g the cold and damp meat plant in Germany).

20 posted on 05/26/2021 7:00:19 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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