CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown June 4, 2024 00:20:00
Agreement in the scientific community the scientific data are controlled trials. one of them was negative, it didn't show a benefit for surgical masks and the other showed a very modest benefit. about 7% of mask wearers develop s symptomatic covid during the period of use versus 8% of the maskless developing covid. so these are small benefits, and i think that a mandate requiring people to be masked really should meet a higher standard than that. and the lack of a mandate doesn't mean you're forbidden to wear masks. it can create this false sense of reinsurance for people to have cloth masks o...