Major Study: Mask Mandates in Schools Don’t Work

This finding isn’t exactly news to regular readers, as we’ve been flogging the evidence and data – actual science – for many months. But with useless-to-harmful school mask mandates on their last legs, it’s important to drive the facts home over and over again, lest any of the adult harmers ever consider turning back the clock if and when new variants arise or surges occur. Masking children in schools simply is not a scientifically-supported mitigation strategy for combatting COVID. The latest vindication of that policy view comes from a large study (monitoring hundreds of thousands of students) out of Spain: MASK STUDY, SPAIN: “Face mask mandates in schools not associated with lower SARS-CoV‑2 incidence or transmission, suggesting this intervention not effective. Instead, age-dependency was most important factor” on transmission risk in school. CDC data on age-stratification below. https://t.co/hy6ffU4g0g pic.twitter.com/jezlsh8TSx— Monica Gandhi MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9) March 8, 2022Dr. Nicole Saphier reacts: This NEW study shows masks mandates in schools were not associated with lower CoV2 transmission.Also of note, the lowest cases, hospitalization and deaths were in those 1–4yes.Yet Americans are still masking the lowest risk populations with data arguing against it. https://t.co/S4UKOfxmpT— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) March 8, 2022She is, not so subtly, taking aim at the mayor of New York City – who recently made this nonsensical statement while defending the city’s truly insane policy of maintaining mask requirements for pre-schoolers, but not others: ICYMI: @NYCMayor tells @patkiernan he needs parents of kids under 5 to trust him and said they will be allowed to remove masks soon.He said he’s telling kids: “When you have big brothers and sisters, sometimes they do it first t …

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