Prof Christina Pagel

New blog post about Prof Trish Greenhalgh & colleagues'

latest opus on masks and airborne disease:

https://open.substack.com/pub/independentsage/p/masks-work-our-comprehensive-review?r=315tdh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

TLDR masks work, high quality ones (e.g. FFP2/FFP3) work better, wearing them properly is *needed* and we need to move on from simple "do they work" Qs.

Masks work, our comprehensive review has found

Trish Greenhalgh & colleagues reflect on the findings of their new gold standard review on masks and Covid-19

May 22, 2024 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadsoaprootMay 22, 2024
@chrischirp Nice article and I didn't dig into the cited work beyond the article itself but if I may summarize even further: (1) tight fitting masks work, but (2) you have to wear them. Whether this is encouraging or discouraging I will leave to the reader.