{"id":237553,"date":"2021-09-03T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/09\/03\/surgical-masks-more-effective-at-curbing-covid-spread-than-cloth-study\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:57:26","slug":"surgical-masks-more-effective-at-curbing-covid-spread-than-cloth-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/surgical-masks-more-effective-at-curbing-covid-spread-than-cloth-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical masks more effective at curbing Covid spread than cloth: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Widespread wearing of surgical masks can limit the spread of coronavirus in communities, more than masks made of cloth, finds a large study.<\/p>\n<div>Researchers from Yale University, US, tracked more than 340,000 adults across 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. The findings, published as a preprint, showed that mask-wearing can have a significant impact on limiting the spread of symptomatic Covid-19, the Washington Post reported.<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;I think this should basically end any scientific debate about whether masks can be effective in combating Covid at the population level,&rdquo; Jason Abaluck, an economist at Yale, was quoted as saying.<\/div>\n<div>Abaluck called the study &ldquo;a nail in the coffin&rdquo; of the arguments against masks. Mask wearers saw a 9.3 per cent reduction in symptomatic Covid-19 seroprevalence, meaning the virus was confirmed by bloodwork, as well as a further 11.9 per cent reduction in Covid-19 symptoms.<\/div>\n<div>However, the team emphasised that this did not mean masks were only 9.3 per cent effective. &ldquo;I think a big error would be to read this study and to say, &lsquo;Oh, masks can only prevent 10 percent of symptomatic infections&rsquo;,&rdquo; Abaluck said. The number would probably be several times higher if masking were universal, he said. The study is under peer review with the journal Science, the Post reported.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Further, the researchers found that while cloth masks clearly reduced symptoms, they &ldquo;cannot reject&rdquo; the idea that unlike surgical masks, they may have only a small effect on symptomatic coronavirus infections, and possibly none at all. Abaluck emphasised, however, that research did not produce evidence that cloth masks are ineffective.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The results &ldquo;don&rsquo;t necessarily show that surgical masks are much, much better than cloth masks, but we find much clearer evidence of the effectiveness in surgical masks&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical masks more effective at curbing Covid spread than cloth: Study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}