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Health Officer Berry mistakenly told the BoCC and her KPTZ audience
this March 6 morning that: "It's unfortunate that Cochrane even
published that [mask] study knowing its limitations because it's been
misused, since that happened. Unfortunately, one of the authors in
that group did go on to write an opinion piece in the New York Times,
but was also circulated widely among folks who were anti mask in
which he did make a lot of policy pronouncements that weren't backed
up by his own data, which is unfortunately not new for this
gentleman. He's also written a lot of, he's written several articles
arguing that global warming isn't real."
To the contrary, Cochrane study lead author Dr. Tom Jefferson never
wrote any opinion piece for the New York Times, instead his
gold-standard mask study was the subject of that piece. Berry
"shoots the messenger" by attacking a New York Times columnist whom
she confuses with British researcher Jefferson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/06/dr-carl-heneghan-interviews-dr-tom-jefferson-about-his-major-new-study-showing-masks-have-no-clear-effect/
=== John Hopkins Professor Dr. Marty Makary on the Cochrane
Meta-Study Finding No Mask Effectiveness ===
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-covid-mask-controversy-could-have-been-answered-two-and-a-half-years-ago-dr-marty-makary/ar-AA18gedA
The COVID mask controversy could have been answered two and a half
years ago: Dr. Marty Makary
by Kira Mautone for MSN, 3/6/23
A major controversy throughout the pandemic was surrounding the
efficacy of face masks against the spread of COVID-19. However, a
recent study supports that masks may have done little, if anything at
all, to stop the spread of the virus.
The study published by Cochrane Library, "Physical interventions to
interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses," where
esteemed researchers dug into the impact of physical interventions,
like masks and hand washing, on the spread of COVID.
Dr. Marty Makary joined
"<https://www.foxnews.com/shows/sunday-night-in-america-with-trey-gowdy>Sunday
Night in America" to address this recent study and the vacillation on
the
<https://www.foxnews.com/health/surgical-masks-reduce-covid-19-spread-study>effectiveness
of masks since the start of the pandemic.
"You have to look, I would love to think that masks did something.
But the reality is you've got to listen to the data," Makary said
about the study. "This review looked at 65 studies from 19 countries,
including the best randomized controlled trials out there. You can't
ignore this study. It was done by an organization that's considered
the highest evidence based body in all of medicine, and they set the
standards in medicine."
Makary discussed how the researchers found that on a population
level, the trajectory of COVID
<https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-strongly-urges-masks-high-levels-covid-flu-rsv>transmission
did not change.
"Now, look, if you get two people in a room with high quality masks,
sure, it can reduce the transmission. But the reality is this is a
ubiquitous virus that was nearly inevitable. It is highly contagious.
You can't wear a mask consistently that long and not get the virus,"
Makary said, making the point that having kids faces covered by masks
did "nothing" to reduce transmission.
Dr. Makary highlights how health officials had the "wrong hypothesis"
when it
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-a-believer-in-masks-but-stops-short-of-national-mandate-in-coronavirus-fight>came
to protocols, and continued to dig their heels in on implemented
COVID practices despite "overwhelmingly" strong evidence against their claims.
"What public health officials did is they hedged on the wrong side of
the issue. They had the wrong hypothesis. And when overwhelmingly
strong evidence came out time after time, 65 studies on masks, 160
studies on natural immunity. Study after study, they didn't evolve
their position. They dug in," Makary said, who went on to say that
these health officials were "intellectually dishonest."
"And at that point you're basically putting out misinformation," he
said, explaining how the studies coming out of Sweden of schools that
were masked vs. unmasked had "no difference" in transmission.
"If Dr. Fauci and all of those who pushed masks so fervently would
have simply done their own randomized control study with good
methodology, they could have answered the controversy two and a half
years ago, but they chose to rule by dogma rather than scientific
data," he added.
--- stack up Prof. Makary's credentials compared to Berry's ---
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/martin-makary
Martin Adel Makary, M.D., M.P.H.
Martin Adel Makary, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief, Islet Transplant Surgery
John Hopkins Professor of Surgery
Background
Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns
Hopkins University. He writes for The Washington Post and The Wall
Street Journal and is the author of two New York Times bestselling
books, Unaccountable and The Price We Pay. Dr. Makary served in
leadership at the World Health Organization Patient Safety Program
and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Clinically, Dr. Makary is the chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at
Johns Hopkins. He is the recipient of the Nobility in Science Award
from the National Pancreas Foundation and has been a visiting
professor at over 25 medical schools. He has published over 250
peer-reviewed scientific articles and has served as on several
editorial boards.
Dr. Makary is the recipient of the 2020 Business Book of the Year
Award by the Association of Business Journalists for his most recent
book, The Price We Pay. It has been described by Don Berwick as "a
deep dive into the real issues driving up the price of health care"
and by Steve Forbes as "A must-read for every American".
Dr. Makary serves as a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine and a professor, by courtesy, at the Johns Hopkins Carey
Business School. His current research focuses on the underlying
causes of disease, public policy, health care costs, and
relationship-based medicine.
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