• Please tell me how a double blind study of masks and covid transmission would get past an ethics committee.

  • Nevermind an ethics committee, how the heck would you design the study?
    And then ensure compliance?
    And then consider so many confounders to make it pointless.
    Hence- even the massive Danish RCT- all have been published with massive caveats.

  • I suppose thats why Denmark's study was so inconclusive....it can only be done in a way that wouldn't otherwise harm people. I.e in a society with good social distancing, with pubs and bars shut and low covid rates.

  • Nevermind an ethics committee, how the heck would you design the study?

    Struggling to see how you could have a placebo mask for the control group for a double blind study.

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