6/n Now, this is at face value implausible. The authors have picked out masks as an intervention, but the reality here is that there was NO SINGLE INTERVENTION that you could easily point to at any moment in time
I'm not sure I agree - the paper explicitly argues that other NPIs are insufficient to "protect the public". I'm not sure you can interpret this in any other way tbhpic.twitter.com/ekit7hv5CI
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It's talking about the current NPIs in the *US* - it says that explicitly. And we can clearly see the truth of the claim in the US data. (Australia's approach of early border closures and lots of testing would have been great in the US, but too late to rely on that now.)
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The sentence that follows the one you highlighted, however, does appear to be be potentially invalidated by the Aus and NZ experience - assuming they both get thru the winter successfully.
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