Were the Masks Really Working All Along?

The masks were working all
along.

So says an article published last
month in the Atlantic.

This announcement may have come as
a surprise to many who had been following the mask controversy. After all, the
only randomized controlled trial with COVID-19 infection as an endpoint,
published last March (the DANMASK-19 study), failed to show the
masks made any difference. And the only randomized controlled trial with
all respiratory infections as an endpoint – a 2015 joint Vietnamese-Australian
study of nurses in clinical settings – showed that cloth masks actually made things worse.

The new study – which at the time
of writing this …read more