[Preprint] Largest study of masks yet details their importance in fighting Covid-19.
3 Sep, 2021 | 10:30h | UTCLargest study of masks yet details their importance in fighting Covid-19 – NBC News
Original study: The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh – Innovations for Poverty Action
See also: A Study In Bangladesh Tripled The Rate Of Mask-Wearing. Can It Help In The U.S.? – NPR
Commentaries on Twitter (thread – click for more)
This is arguably the most important single piece of epidemiological research of the entire pandemic.
A MASSIVE randomized trial launched a pro-mask campaign in some Bangladeshi villages, but not others.
The result: masking villages got less COVID. https://t.co/8uKPXAvvnU
— Lyman Stone 石來民 ??? (@lymanstoneky) September 1, 2021
(thread from the author – click for more)
Some misinterpretation of our #Bangladesh Mask RCT by those who don’t read research, which I’ll ignore, but also some parochial/racist reactions, which I must respond to https://t.co/FFeqz1zox5
— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) September 2, 2021