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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2332667" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>For what its worth here is an actual link to the afore mentioned study which despite its inconclusive conclusions and discussion (it hoped to show that wearing a mask might prevent the wearer getting infected but did not do that and never aimed to show if masks prevented transmission)</p><p>It seems like a well run study in that it was randomised, large and run at a time in April/May when there was believed to be 2% infection rate in the community. The outcome (infection) was tested for by pcr but also lateral flow and they excluded those who were antibody positive.</p><p>Out of 6,000 about 100 tested positive and of these 48 were mask wearers and 52 were not. All of them went outside their homes.</p><p>Regardless of the mask question what this tells me is that even at just past peak infectivity not many people managed to catch Covid when the testing was done thoroughly rather than just with pcr. Perhaps all the moralising over mask wearing might lessen if we were to discover that infection rates are lower than we imagine? It is getting tiresome to be told that if you don't mask up you're a covidiot or conspiracy theorist as some of the people on this thread opining!</p><p><a href="https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817" target="_blank">https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 2332667, member: 365308"] For what its worth here is an actual link to the afore mentioned study which despite its inconclusive conclusions and discussion (it hoped to show that wearing a mask might prevent the wearer getting infected but did not do that and never aimed to show if masks prevented transmission) It seems like a well run study in that it was randomised, large and run at a time in April/May when there was believed to be 2% infection rate in the community. The outcome (infection) was tested for by pcr but also lateral flow and they excluded those who were antibody positive. Out of 6,000 about 100 tested positive and of these 48 were mask wearers and 52 were not. All of them went outside their homes. Regardless of the mask question what this tells me is that even at just past peak infectivity not many people managed to catch Covid when the testing was done thoroughly rather than just with pcr. Perhaps all the moralising over mask wearing might lessen if we were to discover that infection rates are lower than we imagine? It is getting tiresome to be told that if you don't mask up you're a covidiot or conspiracy theorist as some of the people on this thread opining! [URL]https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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