Study Showing Masks Aren't Harmful May Do More Harm Than Good

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Study Showing Masks Aren't Harmful May Do More Harm Than Good

John Mandrola, MD

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November 03, 2020

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I got into trouble (again) on Twitter. My tweet concerned a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the safety of wearing a nonmedical mask.

For this study, 25 people recruited from a retirement condominium self-recorded their oxygen saturations before, during, and after wearing a three-layer disposable mask.

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