We thought we put a nail in the coffin on masks because remember this

Cochrane Collaboration report, one of the most respected independent

organizations, the Cochrane Collaboration, they put out this report at the end

of January 2023. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of

respiratory viruses, recover this. Most of the mainstream media ran with this

and said it's over for masks and this is what Cochrane found. Wearing masks in

the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of

influenza like illness, ILI or COVID-19 like illness compared to not wearing

masks. They also went on to say pretty similarly, wearing masks in the community

probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory confirmed

influenza on SARS-CoV-2 compared to not wearing masks. Investigative

journalist Mary Ann Demasi had a substack and she wrote about something that

just happened in the last couple of weeks. She interviewed Tom Jefferson. He was

one of the main authors on that Cochrane Collaboration study with masks. As

a meta-analysis looked at 78 randomized controlled trials and it was an

update from an earlier one and they included the COVID, basically the COVID era

in this update. And so she wrote this in a new update on her substack. Did

Cochrane sacrifice its researchers to appease critics? Authors of the latest

Cochrane review angered by Cochrane's capitulation to to pressure from critics.

She writes talking about her interview with Tom Jefferson. It was enough to

stoke the iron a long time mask advocate in New York Times colonists, Zinnep

Tafiki who published a rebuke of Jefferson's comments in a recent opinion

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