Except that once we learned Covid wasn’t about droplets, cloth masks were as effective a mitigation strategy as putting up a chain link fence against mosquitos. The new advice is designed to wean everyone off masks.https://twitter.com/LawrenceGostin/status/1392991318910148609 …
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we've been doing this for a year and some people still know just enough to be wrong
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In fairness, explanations and guidance about this have been very muddled. Masks don’t work against airborne diseases come mostly from people who don’t understand aerosols correctly and were the ones very much pushing for droplets as sole mechanism. So confusion is understandable.
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With proper fit and thread count.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185834/ …
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You can just say you were wrong
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