A recent MedRxiv study found that mask mandates and the use of masks in the continental United States were ânot associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spreadâ during the global outbreak of the coronavirus last year.
Measuring total coronavirus case growth and public mask use with data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the non-peer-reviewed studyâs results ascertained that the growth rate of COVID-19 cases did not significantly vary between âmandate and non-mandate states.â
When exposed to higher transmission and spread, âsurges were equivocalâ across the separate states and ââask mandates and useâ could not be âassociated with slower state-level COVID-19 spread during COVID-19 growth surges,â the researchers noted.
âOur findings do not support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease with greater public mask use,â they continued. According to the researchers, coronavirus âtransmission waves are independent of reported mask use,â and do not associate with case growth.
âCase growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread, and mask use did not predict case growth during the Summer or Fall-Winter waves.â
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-study-finds-mask-use-little-no-association-spread-covid-contradicting-cdc/
