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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
Plain English with Derek Thompson
Cochrane Meta-Analysis - Two Quick Fire Questions About Your Study
There's many possible explanations we could give for why it happened. Many include that have nothing to do with confounds or anything like that. We find stronger evidence for the effectiveness of surgical masks, although both cloth and surgical masks appear to have reduced symptoms. For cloth masks, it's actually, it's just imprecise. So I can't rule out that they're about as effective as surgical masks,. It seems like surgical masks are better also from just laboratory studies from people cough into a petri dish. There's a different question of when are mask mandates called for? COVID fatality rates are 20 times lower in the US than they were in July of 2021. That makes a
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