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Note that the Danish study is complete as of october 2020, but the results were refused publication from Lancet and two other major journals.
Presumably because the results were not politically correct.Unlikely. It’s because the study isn’t good enough. Doesn’t mean it’s without merit though.
Presumably it has been published elsewhere? There are plenty of other journals with less exacting standards.
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The question of mask effectiveness is still open. There is no hard evidence that they do work, only some hard evidence that they don't. The article below is from july 2020 and lists all known post-Covid randomized control studies. Note that the Danish study is complete as of october 2020, but the results were refused publication from Lancet and two other major journals. Presumably because the results were not politically correct.
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/
btw: the findings of the last study (2015) were that paper masks or non masks make no difference ultimately, to the spread of disease - presumably because so few people wear the things correctly and it's almost impossible to do ALL the time - BUT wearing a CLOTH mask doubles your chances of infection. I figure that's because you're incubating all kinds of shit on there, fungus, bacteria, etc. Like a whole viral load.