Do Masks Really Work? I Don't Think So

Tracy: I think that the issue comes first like with recommending that people do something and then the next level is you know with mandating that people do it. Tracy reanalyzed one of the CDC studies that they published the Buds in et al at all study that was used as rationale to recommend and mandate even masking in schools. They use such a short study period time in such a small group of people that they end up finding a significant benefit, she says. But basically when we reanalyze their data with a larger sample size in a longer time period the effects disappeared according to Tracy.