PETER HITCHENS: If masks are pointless, will I get an apology?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

The research is in. Wearing bits of cloth over your mouth and nose is almost certainly pointless, unless you are a bank robber trying to hide his ��identity. 

The news comes from a Cochrane Review, one of the most reliable and thorough forms of ��scientific research.

The review, which focused on masks and hand-washing, looked at evidence from 78 randomised trials with more than 610,000 participants. 

It found that wearing masks in the community...