{"id":1836220,"date":"2023-02-06T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836220"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:05:56","slug":"this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"This Study Could Be &#8216;Scientific Nail in the Coffin&#8217; for Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836220&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a study done by a world-renowned medical database, masks don&#8217;t make any difference. A study of a masked elementary student \/Getty Images    <\/p>\n<p>One of the most thorough and extensive studies of the effectiveness of masks revealed that they have almost no effect on spreading respiratory viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranelibrary.com\/cdsr\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD006207.pub6\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Study<\/a> reviewed 78 randomized control trials\u2014experiments that have long been considered &#8220;the gold standard&#8221; for medicine\u2014which assessed the effectiveness of face masks against flu, COVID-19, and similar illnesses. It was found that masks were effective in fighting flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. &#8220;probably makes little or no difference&#8221; No matter which type of mask, it is safe for everyone. N95 masks were not effective in filtering out airborne particles.<\/p>\n<p>The Cochrane Library published the study on January 30, a well-respected medical database known for its high-quality evidence review. This study is a blow to the U.S. public-health establishment&#8217;s recommendations, which advised children as young as 2 years old to wear masks during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amounts to the scientific nail in the coffin for mask mandates,&#8221; Kristen Walsh, a clinical pediatrics professor in Morristown (New Jersey), said: &#8220;I just can&#8217;t wrap my mind around the fact that some schools are still actively forcing children to wear masks, much less children who need to see faces to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although most Western countries are based in the West, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/the-hijacking-of-pediatric-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opted against masking <\/a>kids\u2014in part due to concerns about speech and social development\u2014many blue school districts mandated face coverings for toddlers, citing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>Both organizations maintain that the masks work well to curb COVID-19 in schools. However, the guidance was based on a lot of assumptions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/12\/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky\/621035\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weak studies<\/a> Critics claimed that their results were biased by the small sample size and lack of controls. Many of the studies only compared areas with mandated masks with places without them. It was difficult to tell whether masks reduced COVID, or other factors. For example, COVID-cautious individuals were more likely to use masks.<\/p>\n<p>The sorts of experiments Cochrane canvassed\u2014in which subjects were chosen at random to receive masks\u2014were designed to avoid that problem. They allowed researchers to distinguish the effects of masks by the caution levels of those wearing them, giving a better picture of how effective the masks are.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Cochrane review was created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the effectiveness of masks found they do almost nothing to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.<br \/>\nThe post This Study Could Be &#8216;Scientific Nail in the Coffin&#8217; for Masks appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":1394483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[14258,4438,14257,6337,4866],"class_list":["post-1836220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-coffin","tag-masks","tag-nail","tag-scientific","tag-study"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1394483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}