A Medicine article proposes the Foegen effect to explain why the Covid fatality rate increases with mask usage: deep re-inhalation of condensed droplets which were trapped in the mask can worsen outcomes.
Mask-wearing had no discernible impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Europe during winter 2020-21 and may actually have increased mortality, a study has found.
The legal rules may have gone in England, but many contexts don't seem to have noticed. Here's a list of the places stuck in a neverendemic where Covid rules are still in force.
Holidaymakers are being urged to wear face masks on the beach by local councils in the latest sign the pandemic has become a neverendemic in some people's eyes.
A new book comprehensively examines the scientific evidence on face masks for COVID-19 and finds even the most positive studies only found an effect of 15%, and the properly designed studies found much less than that.
A new report by Ofsted on the impact of lockdown on children shows the social and physical development of babies has been greatly stunted by masks and lockdowns as they now “struggle with facial expressions”.
Brits should return to wearing masks in enclosed spaces and not meeting indoors, the Chief Medical Adviser of the U.K. Government Health Security Agency has said – boding ill for future interventions.
New York City's new Health Commissioner has caused anger after announcing that children aged five and under should wear face masks indefinitely, bucking the national trend of ditching masks.
Scotland's Supreme Leader Nic Sturge-on sparked fury today as she U-turned on plans to remove Scotland's last remaining Covid laws by keeping mask rules in place for weeks more at least.
British holidaymakers will not be required to wear masks on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights following the Government's announcement that all Covid travel measures will end on Friday.
