Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director on Facemasks Saving Lives in the Covid19 Pandemic

 On 25th October 2020, the eminent scientist  Dr Fauci tells the BBC that facemasks worn by members of the public save lives in the Covid19 pandemic. 

I think lethal anti-mask sentiments spread by UK scientists, politicians and academics needs to be seriously debated - to save lives, or not as the case may be. I have looked at the evidence and it has been clear to me since March 2020 that masks surely do play a major role in reducing the incidence spread of Covid19. Read the evidence - and who has been promoting anti-mask sentiments - on my Masks Supermyth blog here

The Masks Supermyth is Bust with Experimental Research

Where, exactly, is the experimental research to test the hypothesis that masks do not help reduce the spread of Covid19?

Yet further published experimental research @brianjford to support the hypothesis that facemasks do reduce the spread of #Covid19. Where is the experimental research revealing that they do not? https://t.co/ol7EIbbzCz

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) May 17, 2020

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Brian J Ford kindly shares a journal article looking at how effective masks are against Covid19

@trishgreenhalgh Folk don't cough straight into a petri dish in shops though. As nutrition advice based on what happens in a petri dish may have little to do with inside a person. They wrote
"We do not know whether masks shorten the travel distance of droplets during coughing."

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) May 17, 2020

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Let's not exaggerate the risk. https://t.co/VoIEtJYPji

— Oscar Blaketon (@OscarBlaketon) May 17, 2020

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Well it may not be deliberate. But, following your observation. let's ask a telling question:

"If Covid19 had worst mortality impact by far on young, rich and white people (rather than the old, the poor and black/minority ethnic populations) would the policy making be different? https://t.co/nlg7IS3jwa

— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) May 17, 2020