by Besides polluting the environment, wearing masks no matter if it’s N95 or surgical masks, makes little to no difference in reducing spread of flu-like illness, covid or a respiratory illness.
”Compared with wearing no mask in the community studies only, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu‐like illness/COVID‐like illness”
”Wearing N95/P2 respirators probably made “little to no difference” in how many people were confirmed with flu, a flu‐like illness, or a respiratory illness.”
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