Paul Elias Alexander
… A CDC study by Budzyn et al. published in the MMWR on October 1st 2021 (Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements — United States, July 1–September 4, 2021), reported that “Counties without school mask requirements experienced larger increases in pediatric COVID-19 case rates after the start of school compared with counties that had school mask requirements (p<0.001).”…
… We knew right away that causation cannot be concluded from this ecological mask study and that this study encompassed children up to 18 years old classified as pediatric. We knew the research methods were poor, calling into question the findings.
… Now Chandra and Høeg’s (LANCET) published mask study calls into question the findings of the CDC’s prior masks study…