“In the deleted tweet, I cited the following evidence against general population masks: 1) Cases exploded even with mandates: Los Angeles County, Miami-Dade County, Hawaii, Alabama, the Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Israel.”
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Dr. Carl Heneghan, U of Oxford, dir of Centre for Evidence-Based Med & editor of British Med Journal Evidence-Based Med: ‘It would appear that despite 2 decades of pandemic preparedness, there’s considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.’” cebm.net/covid-19/maski…
“3) The WHO: ‘The widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider’” 4/apps.who.int/iris/bitstream…
“4) The CDC: ‘Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.’” 5/ wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26…
“I also cited an article giving detailed explanation of the reasons why masks might not prevent spread” 6/ bitly.ws/aeZa