Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that they made no difference during the pandemic.
As recently as this May, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesBut in February, a major study from the Cochrane Library found that wearing them was pointless.
“There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author,Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020.Confronted with Jefferson’s quotes, Fauci backtracked.
“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” he admitted. As the White House’s chief medical adviser, Fauci gave advice on the efficacy of masking, first saying it was unnecessary for the general public, then that “universal wearing of masks is the most practical way to go.”“But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals,” they might be protective, he said.Share this article:
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