Do Masks Matter?

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Doctor cavita patel was a health policy director in the obama administration. She says masks do matter, and have been shown to reduce infection probability by 60% on flights with no masks. Doctor petell: 'We don't have perfect randomise trials, c standard trials, because that's a little bit unfeasible'

A Florida judge ended the federal government’s mass transit mask mandate this week. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains if mask mandates are over forever and Dr. Kavita Patel explores how much of a difference that would make.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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