Future RCT about masks. Contrary to what
Fauci says that these can’t be done, they are. Those people who constantly refer to the seatbelts testing argument are comparing apples and oranges. Just because the US won’t touch a study on this because they listen to Fraudci, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Below are the RCT currently being conducted on mask use as it relates to covid.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04471766
http://www.ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/pmaindet2.php?trialid=45868
http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=50247
Meta-Analysis/Observational Studies/PEER systematic reviews
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33215698/
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The pooled results of randomised trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks during seasonal influenza. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness. Harms associated with physical interventions were under-investigated.
There is a need for large, well-designed RCTs addressing the effectiveness of many of these interventions in multiple settings and populations, especially in those most at risk of ARIs”
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
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We aimed to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of each measure for laboratory-confirmed influenza outcomes for each of the measures because RCTs provide the highest quality of evidence.”
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Hand hygiene is also effective in preventing other infectious diseases, including diarrheal diseases and some respiratory diseases (8,26). The need for hand hygiene in disease prevention is well recognized among most communities. Hand hygiene has been accepted as a personal protective measure in >50% of national preparedness plans for pandemic influenza”
“In our systematic review, we identified
10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis,
we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks”
Authors reviewed RCT available and came up with their analysis. This isn’t RCT study but a study of RCT.
https://www.rcreader.com/sites/default/files/Denis-Rancourt-Face-masks-lies-damn-lies-and-public-health=officials-a-growing-body-of-evidence-August-03-2020.pdf
“I prove that there is no policy-grade evidence to support forced masking on the general population, and that all the latest-decade’s policy-grade evidence points to the opposite: NOT recommending forced masking of the general population. Therefore, the politicians and health authorities are acting without legitimacy and recklessly.”
One of the best articles out there documenting shitty masks policies.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...matic-review/64D368496EBDE0AFCC6639CCC9D8BC05
“In conclusion there remains a substantial gap in the scientific literature on the effectiveness of face masks to reduce transmission of influenza virus infection. While there is some experimental evidence that masks should be able to reduce infectiousness under controlled conditions [7],
there is less evidence on whether this translates to effectiveness in natural settings.”
“An important concern when determining which public health interventions could be useful in mitigating local influenza virus epidemics, and which infection control procedures are necessary to prevent nosocomial transmission, is the mode of influenza virus transmission between people and in the environment. Physical barriers would be most effective in limiting short-distance transmission by direct or indirect contact and large droplet spread, while more comprehensive precautions would be required to prevent infection at longer distances via airborne spread of small (nuclei) droplet particles”
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747
“Our analysis confirms the effectiveness of medical masks and respirators against SARS. Disposable, cotton, or
paper masks are not recommended.
The confirmed effectiveness of medical masks is crucially important for lower-resource and emergency settings lacking access to N95 respirators. In such cases, single-use
medical masks are preferable to cloth masks, for which there is no evidence of protection and which might facilitate transmission of pathogens when used repeatedly without adequate sterilization”
https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/
“In this meta-analysis, face masks were found to have no detectable effect against transmission of viral infections. (1) It found: “Compared to no masks, there was no reduction of influenza-like illness cases or influenza for masks in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.”
https://visionlaunch.com/more-than-...ove-face-masks-do-not-work-even-in-hospitals/
“But to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.”
https://www.cfp.ca/content/66/7/509
“Overall, we found limited evidence regarding the effect of masks on viral respiratory infections both in the community and in health care settings, and most of our analyses showed no statistically significant differences.”