Nope, definitely not. The reason for "maybe consider" is what Scott writes in this post:https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/31/ssc-journal-club-macintyre-on-cloth-masks/ …
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Hmmm, I think you can do better than my 30% heuristic here but throwing out the control group, the study still finds that the difference between surgical and cloth is too large to be consistent with cloth being net-positive unless surgical is much much better than anyone thought
Well, my follow-up assumption is that neither medical masks nor cloth masks work well if your full-time job is with infectious patients; the point at which you reach "zero difference" depends on how long you run the study, how infectious the patient pop is, etc.
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This is the reason it was a big no-no to pull in the "medical masks don't work" assumption from other studies, where those factors were almost certainly different
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There's also the issue of other PPE; if the air is constantly being resaturated with droplets and/or particles and you're basically hot-boxing that to treat a patient, anything short of full lab hazmat is going to put you in serious trouble
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