Prof Christopher Dye, professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford, said: “The next thing is Disease X as WHO (World Health Organization) has called it
Twitter rebranding as the next pandemic, classic Enron
Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds
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bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
eierkuchen@beehaw.org 1 year ago
No shit, sherlock! I’ll inform pikachu right away. Brb.
Misconduct@startrek.website 1 year ago
I still wear mine. I’ll probably always wear it when I’m sick in the future. Never realized how easy it was not to be nasty and spread illnesses around
slimarev92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No shit.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This is news? I thought we already knew that loke one year or more ago…
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
We’ve basically known it since germ theory, or maybe before. Still, it doesn’t hurt to have the study to point crazy people to. They won’t believe it, but it at least ensure anyone else reading might not trust them.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Remember when early in the pandemic the news and the CDC was saying masks won’t help?
barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 year ago
So we’re bringing them back, right? anakin-padme-4
Florn@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Auzy@beehaw.org 1 year ago
You mean the right wing crazies who exaggerate everything from EV fires to being unable to breathe in masks were wrong?
Huge shocker, but I will continue to get all of my science advice from them in the future /s
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]merridew@feddit.uk 1 year ago
When the people who claimed “masks don’t work” convince the Royal Society to publish an 80 page report similarly supported by academics at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, St Andrews, UCL, and Edinburgh (among others) then they will definitely deserve to be equally confident.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Interesting, although I’d like to see a comparison with countries like Sweden who made advisories instead of compulsion
Arcturus@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sweden was a bit of an outlier though. Most younger Swedes live alone. And they tend to follow government advisories. New Zealand's strategy was stellar, particularly early on in the pandemic. You could do what you want. I remember we were out having concerts as if there was no pandemic, thanks to the zero COVID strategy. But by late-Delta, early-Omicron, zero COVID could not longer be sustained, and it was clear only mitigations would stick. The government hoped to eliminate it like they did the other times, but it was just impossible then, people had become complacent.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thanks, I’d forgotten how well NZ had done. I wonder if the SARS epidemic made them better prepared compared to Europe.
The only pandemic threats I recall in the UK was bird and swine flu.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Measures taken during the Covid pandemic such as social distancing and wearing face masks “unequivocally” reduced the spread of infections, a report has found.
Experts looked at the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) – not drugs or vaccines – when applied in packages that combine a number of measures that complement one another.
Prof Sir Mark Walport, the foreign secretary of the Royal Society and chairman of the report’s expert working group, said: “There is sufficient evidence to conclude that early, stringent implementation of packages of complementary NPIs was unequivocally effective in limiting Sars-CoV-2 infections.
Additionally, the report found that in school settings, closures and other distancing measures were associated with reduced Covid-19 cases, but the effectiveness varied depending on a range of factors, including adherence and pupils’ ages.
For the future, the report recommends establishing international protocols for conducting clinical trials and observational research on NPIs in advance of further pandemics.
The report draws together the findings of six expert-led evidence reviews, published in a special themed issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
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echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
No, really? Wow.
I’m so glad they conducted a study, that was money well spent that was.
theletterd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably more lockdowns than facemasks (at least how people were using them)
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you mean wearing it under your nose and pulling on when talking makes it less effective?
midgephoto@photog.social 1 year ago
@theletterd @merridew
There's cutting, and there's deflecting.
A demographic shift is observed in the USA, related to political stupidity and preference on mask wearing.
TheBroodian@hexbear.net 1 year ago
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Studies, reports and beloved authorities.
Doesn’t anybody look with their own eyes and think with their own brain?
merridew@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Your brain is good at many things.
Your brain is not as good at some things – for example, complex statistical analysis – as the collective brains of lots of other people who specialise in that thing all working together.
lemonflavoured@kbin.social 1 year ago
So you believe literally nothing anyone tells you at all?
richietozier4@hexbear.net 1 year ago
merridew@feddit.uk 1 year ago
“When looking at the use of face masks and mask mandates, studies consistently reported the measures were an effective approach to reduce infection. The evidence further indicates higher-quality respirator masks (such as N95 masks) were more effective than surgical-type masks.”