Mandatory masking also returning to Los Angeles County.
Mask mandates are returning to California, despite the fact that covid has become an endemic disease and there is little reliable evidence they are anything other than a virtue-signalling nuisance.If you walk into a doctor’s office or hospital in much of the Bay Area, you’ll notice every staff member must have a mask on starting November 1.
…But with positive COVID-19 cases back on the rise starting back in July and peaking in August, Fox 11 reported there is a new masking mandate in place. It started on Nov. 1 and states that masking is required in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities with the hope of curbing the spread of COVID, the flu and RSV . It will be in effect until the end of March – aka the end of flu season. L.A.
It has published a new Cochrane review of the literature on masks, including trials during the Covid-19 pandemic in hospitals and in community settings. The 15 trials compared outcomes of wearing of surgical masks versus wearing no masks, and also versus N95 masks. The review, conducted by a dozen researchers from six countries, concludes that wearing any kind of face covering “probably makes little or no difference” in reducing the spread of respiratory illness.
Demand for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, and the COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, had dropped in Pfizer’s recent evaluation of its manufacturing network, according to Danehy.
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