An editorial in the September 8 2020 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that a face mask greatly reduces but does not limit entirely a person's exposure to COVID-19, and it is well known that very small exposures to some deadly viruses can sometimes not make a person sick but can sometimes confer immunity, so it is not unreasonable to suggest the same thing might be true for COVID-19. The editorial presents some evidence to suggest this could be true, it says among other things:
"*Countries **that have adapted population-wide masking have fared better in terms of rates of severe Covid-related illnesses and death, which, in environments with limited testing, suggests a shift from symptomatic to asymptomatic infections.*" And concludes with: *"Ultimately, combating the pandemic will involve driving down both transmission rates and severity of disease. Increasing evidence suggests that population-wide facial masking might benefit both components of the response."* Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine <https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0hPPGkV1MdQqvy%3DAHXX9By6FcPiP1e3r6bPPTkZw_9Zw%40mail.gmail.com.
