CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks

 
By Jordan Davidson

A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.

A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.

“In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the report stated.

 
In addition, over 14 percent of the case-patients said they “often” wore a face covering and were still infected with the virus. The study also demonstrates that under 4 percent of the case-patients became sick with the virus even though they “never” wore a mask or face covering.

Despite over 70 percent of the case-patient participants’ efforts to follow CDC recommendations by committing to always wearing face coverings at “gatherings with ≤10 or >10 persons in a home; shopping; dining at a restaurant; going to an office setting, salon, gym, bar/coffee shop, or church/religious gathering; or using public transportation,” they still contracted the virus.

While the study notes that some of these people may have contracted the virus from the few moments that they removed their mask to eat or drink at “places that offer on-site eating or drinking,” the CDC concedes that there is no successful way to evaluate if that was the exact moment someone became exposed and contracted the virus.

“Characterization of community exposures can be difficult to assess when widespread transmission is occurring, especially from asymptomatic persons within inherently interconnected communities,” the report states.

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I’ve had some people try to say Texas is an example of masks working

So maybe they can explain to me why the estimate of transmission rate was below 1 when masks were mandated on 7/2, and then went up two weeks later

Really curious to hear how that shows masks working. pic.twitter.com/wcewCKgovu

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) October 12, 2020

One of the best mask zealot lines is: “why do doctors wear masks if they don’t work”?

In theory, doctors wear masks to prevent bacterial infections in open wounds.

In reality, as this study shows, wearing masks actually lead to MORE infections than wearing nothing. pic.twitter.com/jdlX6Kze3a

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) October 12, 2020