{"id":621770,"date":"2024-05-30T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621770"},"modified":"2024-05-30T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:04:57","slug":"masks-found-to-be-ineffective-after-first-omicron-wave-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621770","title":{"rendered":"Masks Found To Be Ineffective After First Omicron Wave: New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>By the second Omicron wave, wearing masks was shown to offer no protection for adults and potentially increased the risk of infection in children&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>Ms. Brainard told The Epoch Times that she and her co-author, Dr. Paul Hunter, felt that some people invested \u201cway too much faith\u201d in wearing masks. Their 2020 systematic review suggested that masks only modestly reduced the risk of transmission of influenza-like illnesses by about 19 percent if both parties\u2014the infected and susceptible\u2014wore masks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/masks-found-be-ineffective-after-first-omicron-wave-new-study\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/masks-found-be-ineffective-after-first-omicron-wave-new-study<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>AND<\/h3>\n<h4 id=\"artTitle\">Changing risk factors for developing SARS-CoV-2 infection from Delta to Omicron<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0299714\">https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the second Omicron wave, wearing masks was shown to offer no protection for adults and potentially increased the risk of infection in children&#8230; Ms. Brainard told The Epoch Times that she and her co-author, Dr. Paul Hunter, felt that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621771,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621770\/revisions\/621771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}