Gen Til wears a protective mask while working out at the Planet Granite climbing gym during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco on Thursday, March 4, 2021. The gym opened today to allow for a ten percent capacity. (Photo by AP / Jeff Chiu)
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UPDATED 4:45 PM PT – Sunday, March 7, 2021
The CDC has admitted that masks did little to prevent the spread of COVID-19 amid rising pressure to lift mask warrants in the United States. of error.
Merchant Jesus Barajas (C) wears a mask when showing long roses for sale before the Valentine’s Day holiday at the Southern California Flower Market on February 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images)
The study found that between March and December 2020, facial mask orders reduced infection rates by 1.5 percent over two-month periods each. Masks were 0.5 percent effective in the first 20 days of mandates and less than 2 percent effective after 100 days.
A traveler wears a face mask while checking his phone at the level of arrivals outside Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid Covid-19 travel restrictions increased on 25 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images)
The CDC added that it still recommends wearing face masks, although it admitted that these mandates make no statistical difference. Meanwhile, some states in the nation have slowly returned to normal by ending mask mandates.
NEW CDC REPORT: mask forces COVID cases to be reduced by about 1.5% over a two-month period pic.twitter.com/wcoKXlJkDN
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