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Bacterial Pneumonia from wearing masks....
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wearing a mask, is the same logic as wearing a St Christopher metal ...
more people died in the 1918 pandemic from Bacterial Pneumonia than from the Spanish Flu -
another example of the cure being worse than the disease
Quoting: Shadow Dance Your not wrong there. There was this study done in 2006. I read it back at the start of this Covid thing. Clinical respiratory illness (CRI) Influenza-like illness (ILI) [ link to pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (secure)] Results: The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Cloth masks also had significantly higher rates of ILI compared with the control arm. An analysis by mask use showed ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) were significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.
Conclusions: This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.
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