Wearing a mask helps reduce the spread of COVID-19; social media posts misinterpret Annals of Internal Medicine study on N95 respirators
CLAIM “‘Gold Standard’ science trial deals massive blow to N95 and surgical masks as means to ‘stop Covid’” DETAILS distorts the source: Despite social media posts claiming that the Loeb study et al. showed that masks do not work, the study did not determine whether wearing a mask effectively reduced the spread of COVID-19. Instead, …