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(WND News Center) – An article in left-leaning magazine The Atlantic, presenting evidence that school children should not be required to wear a mask, is prompting Twitter users to flag it for misinformation and call for a retraction.
In “The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real,” Vinay Prasad, a hematologist and oncologist and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UC San Francisco, concludes that the “potential educational harms of mandatory-masking policies are much more firmly established, at least at this point, than their possible benefits in stopping the spread of COVID-19 in schools.”
A similar story published by New York magazine was titled “The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain.” Author David Zweig cites a large-scale study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found no statistically significant difference in schools that required students to wear masks compared to schools where masks were optional.
Zweig pointed out that the findings, along with other mitigation efforts that have been shown to have statistically insignificant results, “cast doubt on
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