Do face masks work?
From our UK edition
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, international agencies, national governments, and local public health departments claimed that their policies followed ‘the science’. The imposition of face masks in public areas was a prominent example. ‘Hands, face, space,’ we were told; the belief was that wearing a mask would prevent the transmission of the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Critics who called into question the evidence for that claim were accused of peddling ‘misinformation’. Yet the latest review of mask wearing studies suggests they were right - and that masks made little to no difference in curtailing the spread of Covid.
