A new study found that people who said they wear masks indoors were less likely to contract COVID-19 by at least half.
– Confusion over the efficacy of masks has been an issue since the beginning of the pandemic.in which he said masks weren’t effective for the general public.
Eventually, it became clear that masks do work to some degree, but that cloth and surgical masks aren’t very effective.from the California Department of Public Health. It found that people who said they wear N-95 respirators indoors were about 80 percent less likely to test positive for COVID than those who never wore masks inside.
Those who said they wore surgical masks indoors were roughly 60% less likely to test positive than those who didn’t wear masks. The study overall found that consistently wearing a mask indoors cuts the odds in half for testing positive for COVID-19.The study was done before the omicron variant, so mask efficacy for omicron isn’t known. It also didn’t take into account that testing negative may have been because of protective behaviors that had nothing to do with masking like social distancing for example.
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