On 8/11/2020 10:40 AM, %% wrote:


"Bod" wrote in message
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Some countries have been devastated by the novel coronavirus, and
others have escaped lightly.

Why the extreme differences?

Primarily very quickly preventing people from entering their
country once it because clear that this virus is a problem.
That was the case with Taiwan, Vietnam and New Zealand.

And the most badly effected like the UK, Italy, USA and Brazil didnt.

The main one is that countries that quickly resorted to widespread
mask-wearing had far lower death rates and shorter outbreaks, a new
study argues.

Thats not accurate.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7075024/m...avirus-deaths/


Wrong, as always.

"8

Masks: Early Adoption.
The World Health Organization initially advised against widespread mask
wearing by the public, as did the United States CDC.1,48 The WHO
reversed course and
recommended masks in public on June 5, 2020.49
Despite these initial recommendations, a number of countries did favor mask
wear by the public early in their outbreak, and such countries
experienced low
coronavirus-related mortality (Table 2, Table A1, Figure
1).50-68,S1-S301 It is likely that in
Mongolia and Laos, both of which reported no coronavirus-related
mortality by May 9,
the public began wearing masks before any cases were confirmed in their
countries
(Table 2). We identified 22 additional countries with recommendations
or cultural norms
favoring mask-wearing by the public within 20 days of the estimated
onset of the
countrys outbreak:1 including (beginning with those favoring masks
earliest in the
course of their outbreak): Japan, the Philippines, Macau, Hong Kong,
Sierra Leone,
Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bhutan, Venezuela, Taiwan,
Slovakia, St.
Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Indonesia, Brunei, Grenada, Mozambique,
Uzbekistan,
Thailand, and Malawi (Table 2). The average mortality by May 9 for
these 24 early
mask-wearing countries was 1.5 per million (SD 2.0). Twenty of the 24
were lower-
mortality countries (p=0.001).

An additional 17 countries recommended that the public wear masks within 30
days of the estimated onset of their outbreak: São Tomé and PrÃ*ncipe,
Czechia,
Dominica, Bangladesh, Zambia, Chad, Benin, Sudan, El Salvador, Antigua and
Barbuda, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Côte d'Ivoire, South Sudan,
Kenya, Saint
Lucia, and Barbados (Table 2). The average mortality by May 9 for this
group was 8.5
per million (SD 12.4). "

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...Ju ne_15_2020