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@CaulfieldTim @medical_xpress Wow really fit people are not at risk of complications from covid? Who would've thought! We could never have predicted that without conducting a super in-depth study at the expense of the taxpayer 😑

Elite athletes safely return to top-level sports after COVID-19: No issues found in more than 2 years of follow-up medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-e… via @medical_xpress "...study should be reassuring for athletes..."

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@CaulfieldTim @dr_kkjetelina @statnews So the conclusion of all that is too much GARBAGE research hey? For once I totally agree with you on that. Thing is the solution is to cut the budget of some and that could be you or your friends 🤔

Excellent article... "Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question" statnews.com/2023/05/02/do-… by @dr_kkjetelina et al. via @statnews "...members of the public need communications that help them follow the science that is worth following. That means responsible reporting, not hyping individual studies that did not, and could not, tell us anything." cc @jvipondmd @BlakeMMurdoch @DFisman

@BlakeMMurdoch discouraging sports and fitness, etc.) is far greater than that small *positive* effect you get from mandating them. So stop trying to pick at insignificant details just because the conclusions of the study don't align with your worldview. Even if you're right, it's pointless.

@BlakeMMurdoch the majority. So if most people don't wear them properly, it's likely to only make a very small difference on transmission and therefore hospitalizations/deaths in the end. And I would argue that the amount of collateral damage they cause (pollution, education,

@BlakeMMurdoch that NORMAL people will take them down 1000s a day because they are extremely uncomfortable and prevent you from doing essential functions such as eating and drinking and highly impede your ability to enjoy life? The academic hermits enjoy wearing them but that's not the case of

@BlakeMMurdoch But isn't the point of a study on mask effectiveness to know whether mandating them actually works, not the masks per se? It's a filter that blocks particles including viruses, we get that. But the real question is, does it make a significant difference to mandate them knowing