I am constantly informed by various reliable news outlets, e.g.,
>https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/16/diamond-and-silk/medical-hypotheses-journal-article-lacks-evidence-/
and
>https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973
that there exist studies which clearly demonstrate that there is strong evidence that wearing masks reduces transmission of coronavirus and airborne pathogens in general. However I can't find the referenced studies in the article (I can only find links to other articles) and searching on arXiv yields really only two studies I think of note:
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02683.pdf
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.01219.pdf
which are numerical analysis/computer model/simulation studies in which there is what I would call convincing evidence for mask-wearing, but at the same time, these aren't statistical breakdowns of the data that's now (publically?) available from many states about whether or not controls like lockdowns, mask mandates, and whether or not they strictly correlate to lower infection rates, and even some analysis wrt deaths, hospitalization rates, and so on (say, treating a mask mandate like a Bernoulli variable from state to state, or developing some kind of metric for "how locked down a state is")
We can make this the COVID-19 coronavirus rona general if you guys want, I'd kind of like to just pass around some papers on the subject people find interesting. But let's stay polite and on topic, please.
>https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/16/diamond-and-silk/medical-hypotheses-journal-article-lacks-evidence-/
and
>https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973
that there exist studies which clearly demonstrate that there is strong evidence that wearing masks reduces transmission of coronavirus and airborne pathogens in general. However I can't find the referenced studies in the article (I can only find links to other articles) and searching on arXiv yields really only two studies I think of note:
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02683.pdf
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.01219.pdf
which are numerical analysis/computer model/simulation studies in which there is what I would call convincing evidence for mask-wearing, but at the same time, these aren't statistical breakdowns of the data that's now (publically?) available from many states about whether or not controls like lockdowns, mask mandates, and whether or not they strictly correlate to lower infection rates, and even some analysis wrt deaths, hospitalization rates, and so on (say, treating a mask mandate like a Bernoulli variable from state to state, or developing some kind of metric for "how locked down a state is")
We can make this the COVID-19 coronavirus rona general if you guys want, I'd kind of like to just pass around some papers on the subject people find interesting. But let's stay polite and on topic, please.
