I put a link to your mask report and to your book on my website. Now along comes a 1 September study "disproving" what you wrote about masks, the Bangladesh Study. The links fill pages of google searches. At last a "GOLD" standard study! The conclusion: An increase of 29% of surgical mask use correlates with a 11% drop in COVID-19 cases. For those over 60, a 35% reduction! If that is a valid study I will remove those links. I don't want to misinform people. However, I would like to know what kind of selection bias occurred in those in the experimental villages who opted to use the masks. Were they also more health conscious? Did they have better diets? Did they take Ivermectin. What about the older people who knew they were a higher risk? Did they do anything different besides the mask compared to those in villages that weren't given masks? Did the public education facilitate awareness and change other behaviors in the experimental villages? What other confounding variables were not acknowledged? Could the greater physical distancing in the experimental villages have been a factor? Given your research this study seems to be a major outlier. One more rhetorical question. Why don't the studies you cite have three pages of google links? Why don't we see such a response to the CDC study showing masks made no difference? Doesn't fit the Zeitgeist? Help me. I am on the fence and want to get off.
I put a link to your mask report and to your book on my website. Now along comes a 1 September study "disproving" what you wrote about masks, the Bangladesh Study. The links fill pages of google searches. At last a "GOLD" standard study! The conclusion: An increase of 29% of surgical mask use correlates with a 11% drop in COVID-19 cases. For those over 60, a 35% reduction! If that is a valid study I will remove those links. I don't want to misinform people. However, I would like to know what kind of selection bias occurred in those in the experimental villages who opted to use the masks. Were they also more health conscious? Did they have better diets? Did they take Ivermectin. What about the older people who knew they were a higher risk? Did they do anything different besides the mask compared to those in villages that weren't given masks? Did the public education facilitate awareness and change other behaviors in the experimental villages? What other confounding variables were not acknowledged? Could the greater physical distancing in the experimental villages have been a factor? Given your research this study seems to be a major outlier. One more rhetorical question. Why don't the studies you cite have three pages of google links? Why don't we see such a response to the CDC study showing masks made no difference? Doesn't fit the Zeitgeist? Help me. I am on the fence and want to get off.
Have you received a response from ASU?