30 Studies and Articles Undercutting Utility of Masks for Stopping Covid
| Masks have not been proved efficient enough to warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics | 01/01/1920 | American Journal of Public Health |
| Wearing a face mask could put you at greater risk for coronavirus. | 03/01/2020 | Sacramento Bee |
| Surgeon general: Data doesn't back up wearing masks in public amid coronavirus pandemic | 03/31/2020 | Fox News |
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WHO says there is no need for healthy people to wear face masks, days after the CDC told all Americans to cover their faces The use of face masks on healthy people during the coronavirus pandemic has been a major point of contention and confusion among scientists and the public. |
04/07/2020 | Business Insider |
| The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard | 04/08/2020 | Wired |
| Two boys drop dead in China while wearing masks during gym class | 05/06/2020 | New York Post |
| Masks offer little if any, protection from infection | 05/21/2020 | New England Journal of Medicine |
| Study authors admit masks mostly used as 'symbolism' | 05/21/2020 | New England Journal of Medicine |
| Scientific Information on Masks Against COVID-19 | 06/07/2020 | Lockdown Sceptics |
| Norway Does a Mask-Wearing Review, Guess What the Result Was | 07/28/2020 | Healthy Skeptic |
| Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 | 08/06/2020 | Foundation for Economic Education |
| The Ontario arbitration fight about masks | 08/07/2020 | |
| If Masks Work, Why Don’t They WORK? | 09/14/2020 | Townhall |
| Surgical mask wearing among individuals in non-healthcare settings is not significantly associated with reduction in acute respiratory illness incidence in this meta-review | 09/20/2020 | Frontiers in Medicine |
| Andy Biggs rips mask narrative after CDC report shows 85% of symptomatic people 'often' or 'always' wore masks | 10/12/2020 | Washington Examiner |
| The Sketchy Claims of the Case for a Mask Mandate | 10/24/2020 | American Institute for Economic Research |
| Randomly controlled trial in Denmark found that wearing masks did not stop Covid spread | 11/18/2020 | Annals of Internal Medicine |
| Blount County Mayor Shares Comparison of Mask and No-Mask Counties in Tennessee | 11/24/2020 | The Tennessee Star |
| New Study Shows Mask Mandates Had Zero Effect in Florida or Nationwide, But the Lie Continues | 12/21/2020 | Town Hall |
| This Tennessee Data for Masked vs. Unmasked Counties Would Be on Every Front Page, if Results Were Different | 12/28/2020 | Town Hall |
| Charts showing how masks, if anything, backfired | 03/03/2021 | Tom Woods |
| The CDC’s Mask Mandate Study: Debunked | 03/04/2021 | American Institute for Economic Research |
| 'Some studies indicate that masks and limiting group activities such as indoor dining can help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but less clear is why states with greater government-imposed restrictions have not always fared better than those w/o them' | 03/18/2021 | The Washington Post |
| CDC admits having no studies showing masks effective at stopping Covid | 04/27/2021 | CDC |
| Meta study shows masks aren't effective against Covid | 05/01/2021 | Swiss Policy Research |
| Masks Didn't Slow COVID Spread: New Study | 05/18/2021 | medRxiv |
| Study finds prolonged mask use may lead to intermittent hypoxia and an increase in hemoglobin mass | 05/26/2021 | Transfusion and Apheresis Science |
| Dangerous pathogens found on children’s face masks | 06/16/2021 | Rational Ground |
| Study: Masking children causes hypercapnia | 06/30/2021 | JAMA |
| Forced masking and school shutdowns and even more strict distancing all produced worse outcomes for schools | 07/21/2021 | National COVID-19 School Response Dashboard |
