White House Official: ‘There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well’

After nearly three years, has it been proven that face masks work?

Hardly.

But now the public health establishment has shifted its stance to noting that N95s are the preferred method of mask-wearing.

This is incorrect, too.

Here is what Tom Woods wrote:

“Well, we now have a randomized trial, just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, studying what difference in results, if any, can be perceived from the use of one over the other: “Medical Masks Versus N95 Respirators for Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers: A Randomized Trial.”

What did they find?

Fifty-two out of 497 (10.46%) people wearing medical masks wound up getting Covid, and 47 out of 507 (9.27%) wearing N95s got it — a difference too trivial to amount to anything.”

But now a top White House health official agrees that no study in the world proves that masks work in fighting against COVID-19.

Speaking in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 coordinator, conceded that improving air quality is more effective than year-round masking.

“There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well,” he said.

“So you’re never going to get the kind of benefit from mandatory year-round masking as you would from making substantial improvements in indoor air quality, plus it’s a lot easier to implement as well,” Jha added. “So this is an area where we’re doing a lot and trying to really encourage people to use the resources they have to make those investments and start really improving ventilation filtration in buildings.”

But, yes, please tell us how wearing a mask alone in a car will stop the spread of COVID-19.

In the end, it would be understandable if people were fearful in the first wave of the pandemic. However, by the summer of 2020, it became apparent that the government had been lying, misleading, and overreacting.