Cochrane has finally confirmed that its review on the (in)effectiveness of masks will not be changed, over a year after succumbing to pressure from a New York Times writer. But the damage has been done, says Carl Heneghan.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson has fact-checked the fact checker whose work is being used to discredit the Cochrane review on masking which concluded there's no high-quality evidence that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19.
John Tierney has written an excellent article in City Journal summarising the latest Cochrane review showing masks do "approximately zero" against Covid. But the U.S. has no intention of following this science.
Advocates of mask mandates during the pandemic have suppressed the inconvenient truth about face masks: that they achieve no appreciable reduction in viral transmission, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
The evidence that masks do nothing to stop transmission of COVID-19 is now overwhelming. Why, then, is an NHS mental health trust reiterating its demands for patients to wear masks?
