As of two days ago, Boris Johnson’s government announced it will henceforth be illegal to use public transportation in the UK, without wearing a mask.
But do masks actually do anything to prevent the spread of this disease? Or respiratory diseases in general?
We covered in our third of these brief articles that, actually, the Coronavirus is NOT “20x deadlier” than the flu. That was evident once the early large-scale studies had been done in Germany, Iceland and South Korea. It has only become more so in the weeks since. Far from the 3.4% predicted by the WHO …
Although we hear a lot of anecdotal evidence, and see a lot of headlines, we have no data suggesting an excessive impact on healthcare professionals. A recent statistical study published in the Health Services Journal (HSJ) provides some important facts and context.
