"Requirement to wear masks in hospitals may have had little [zero] impact on COVID-19 transmission during omicron wave"

"Requirements to wear surgical masks in a large London hospital during the first 10 months of omicron activity (December 2021 to September 2022) made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark (15–18 April).

To find out more, researchers from St George's Hospital in south-west London analyzed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 (the first week when the omicron variant became dominant) and September 10, 2022 (when universal COVID-19 screening on admission by PCR stopped) to examine hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections in relation to changes in mask-wearing policies over time.

During the first phase of the study (December 4, 2021 to June 1, 2022), all staff and visitors were required to wear masks in both clinical and non-clinical areas of the hospital. Then in phase two, at week 26 (June 2, 2022 to September 10, 2022) the surgical mask-wearing policy was removed for the majority of wards (study group), while a subset of high-risk wards (i.e., renal hematology and oncology wards, the medical admissions unit and intensive care units) retained the mask obligation policy for staff (control group).
The analysis found that during a general community surge in SARS-CoV-2 infection in June 2022, removal of the mask policy was not associated with a statistically significant change in the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the study group—with SARS-CoV-2 infection no higher than the rate when masks were obligatory.

What's more, the authors did not observe a delayed effect, with no change in the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate during the time when the mask-wearing policy was removed (weeks 26 to 40).

Similarly, the control group who continued wearing masks, found no immediate or delayed change in infection rate.

"Our study found no evidence that mandatory masking of staff impacts the rate of hospital SARS-CoV-2 infection with the omicron variant," says lead author Dr. Ben Patterson from St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London."

Requirement to wear masks in hospitals may have had little impact on COVID-19 transmission during omicron wave
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-requirement-masks-hospitals-impact-covid-.html

No man knows how bad he is 'till he has tried very hard to be good... Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. – C.S. Lewis

@Revelations_and_Rabbit_Holes

Promoted "based" red beard hillbilly song guy was faking his accent and thinks diversity is our strength.

However the fire in Lahaina began, it clearly benefits those intent on rebuilding Maui into a “smart island.” https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/joseph-mercola/what-caused-the-deadly-maui-fires/

NEW: Climate alarmist comes out of the shadows to reveal how the global warming consensus was 'manufactured'
https://beckernews.com/33-ex-climate-alarmist-spills-the-truth-about-the-climate-change-industry-it-manufactured-the-global-warming-consensus-51439/

"The propaganda planner uses the intelligence available to him. He consults with knowledgeable persons. He defines (1) specific kinds of demoralization and discord he wishes to create, (2) the particular enemy audiences in which he wishes to create them, (3) the types of argument he proposes to use, and (4) the media through which he intends to project his propaganda" (Linebarger, 1946).

I thought the situation was bad.
John Walker shows it's even worse than I imagined.

https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/hans-schantz-what-physicists-dont-know-about-electromagnetism/3632

Why Google should be broken up & tossed in the trash.

Google Announces Worldwide BAN on Independent Media From Search Results

https://dainikbidyaloy.com/2023/08/14/google-announces-worldwide-ban-on-independent-media-from-search-results/?amp=1

@NoAgendaLara

Recommended reading - The China Convergence by N S Lyons

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence

Interesting claim...

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/438548756

City Hall, Bamberg, Germany

This Is How Pretzels Are Made!

Did you know? 🎓

This is Alex Jones in 2002. Imagine if this stuff actually happened.

👤 Pat Condell

This is excellent...

youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

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