kickingandscreaming
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Maybe we should have trusted the graphs after all.Another one for @dad4
"Masks made 'no discernible difference' to Covid transmission rates in hospitals, new research suggests.
Infection rates didn’t soar when mask mandates were removed in NHS facilities during the middle of an Omicron surge."
The sad thing? We had decades of studies showing masks didnt work. And then goverments conveniently brushed aside that knowledge and mandated masks. Any many people became convinced of their benefits.
Researchers from St George's Hospital in south-west London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022.
It marked the time between the first week Omicron became the dominant Covid variant and the week universal PCR Covid screening tests were scrapped for patients being admitted.
During the first phase of the study - December 4, 2021 to 1 June 2022 - all staff and visitors were required to wear masks in both clinical and non-clinical areas.
By phase two, the mandate was removed.
Instead, decisions about mask policy were entrusted to individual hospitals.
High risk wards, including ones treating cancer patients and intensive care units, retained the mask obligation.
Researchers found removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a 'statistically significant change' in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate.
Equally, they 'did not observe a delayed effect' in the Covid infection rate once the policy was removed.
Masks in hospitals 'made no difference to Covid infection rates'
Researchers from St George's Hospital in London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022.www.dailymail.co.uk
I saw that. Guess we know what "Long Covid" looks like.By the way was just reading about a private school in NY that still mandates masks for kids. Makes kids sit apart during lunch and allows no talking during lunch. Crazy stuff.