What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?
There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi.
“The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the Covid pandemic, with a total of 610,872 participants in multiple countries. And they track what has been widely observed in the United States: States with mask mandates fared no better against Covid than those without.”
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