CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study

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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 […]

Safeguarding Children and Young People During the Covid-Pandemic

The White Rose Serious_Raising_of_Safeguarding_Concerns_Sept_V2 Emergency Raising of Serious Concerns are as a result of the proven risks of serious and irreversible harm of health to children and young people carrying out any one of the three key procedures outlined in this document. This document serves the emergency raising of serious Safeguarding concerns for each procedure […]

Masks and Marketing in Medicine

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Pairodocs Whether masks or meds, beware when someone sells it to you by quoting relative risk reduction … A sales pitch that uses RRR is a red flag for scientifically literate docs. Salespeople prefer RRR because it sounds much more impressive than ARR.

Inhaled CO2 Concentration while Wearing Face Masks: A Pilot Study Using Capnography

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Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Maria Elena Flacco, Mosè Martellucci, Francesco Saverio Violante, Lamberto Manzoli None of the available evaluations of the inhaled air carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, while wearing face masks, used professional, real-time capnography with water-removal tubing. We measured the end-tidal CO2 using professional side-stream capnography, with water-removing tubing (Rad-97™ capnograph), at rest, (1) without masks, (2) […]

The Mask Studies You Should Know

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Josh Stevenson “Not all studies are equal in their level of certainty or quality, but the absolute most reliable and most certainty we can get usually comes from Systematic Reviews and Meta- Analysis of Randomized Control Trials.” In this article, you will find 10 papers that describe the lack of effectiveness of masks and mask […]