Dr. Makary: Masking Has ‘Essentially No Benefit Whatsoever’ When It Comes to Covid

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MAKARY: “Well, first of all, the study that the interviewer is asking Dr. Fauci about is something called the Cochrane Review. It’s a summary, comprehensive analysis of 150 studies on masks, it found that masks had no impact on community transmission. Now, it doesn’t mean if you put two people into a room and they have very tight-fitting N95 masks for a brief 20-minute interaction, that you’re not going to reduce the risk of transmission, it’s believed it does. But on a community level, when we tell the population, when we tell kids in schools, including toddlers, to wear masks, it had absolutely no impact on transmission. So, Dr. Fauci did not refute the study, he didn’t try to poke holes in it. He changed the subject, he created this arbitrary sort of delineation that there’s individual masking and community masking, and individual may work and community may not, but we have spent a tremendous amount of energy and our time arguing over masking. It has an intervention that is essentially no benefit whatsoever but we live in a new era of blind allegiance to certain public health officials and that, I think, is the tragedy of it.”