Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds


"The Royal Society report, calledCovid-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, reviewed the evidence gathered during the pandemic for six groups of NPIs and their effectiveness in reducing transmission."

"When assessed individually, there was positive – if limited – evidence of transmission reduction from many of the NPIs used in the pandemic, the review found. However, evidence of a positive effect was clear when countries used combinations of NPIs.

Additionally, evidence showed NPIs were most effective when the intensity of transmission was low, supporting their use early in a pandemic and at first sign of resurgence."

"However, as was seen during the pandemic, their use can have adverse personal, educational and economic consequences – making assessment of their effectiveness essential."

"The review found social distancing and lockdowns were the most effective category of NPIs. Stay-at-home orders, physical distancing and restrictions on gathering size were repeatedly found to be associated with significant reduction in Sars-CoV-2 transmission. The more stringent the measures were the greater the effect they had, the experts found.


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.

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."


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...id-study-finds

Oh look... another J.F.C covid worship thread. This is new and original.

Shocker.

How were cases at their highest in the fall of 2020, when things were locked down and everyone was wearing a mask?

And articles already came out that the masks and the lock downs didn't do anything, but since masks are suddenly making a comeback, they're working again?

Man, RainMan sure loves his Rona.....

No mask mandate in Philadelphia schools for 2023-24 school year

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...g-school-year/

How loud does he Reeeeeeeeee, when he reads articles like this?

I get why people want/need to believe these results are fake or incorrect.

"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."

Thread saved.

Sure guy, they worked, and that's why the majority of the people on the planet got it, because it worked so well....

Now show the damage done to students with Zoom learning, and being forced to mask up, and be sent home every time they coughed, or had some sniffles......

Pay me for what you want me to prove and we'll get you those results....state of $cience in clown world.

If your claim is that kids were damaged, support it

Stats can't be manipulated, how dare you!!!!

I get why you don't like the results

What do you think they did incorrectly?

The pandemic has had devastating impacts on learning. What will it take to help students catch up?

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/t...ents-catch-up/

The collateral damage of lockdowns on children is still emerging

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...till-emerging/

Here ya go retard.......

New variants linked to swell in California COVID cases. Here’s when to get next booster

The late summer COVID-19 wave is gaining momentum in California.

Over the past month, hospitalizations jumped by nearly 81%, rising from a daily average of 186 admissions to 336, according to state health department data published Friday. The state’s test positivity rate is also up to 13.2% after falling as low as 3.4% at the beginning of the summer. Wastewater samples from Bay Area sewer sheds indicated a doubling of the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 virus since July, underscoring a steady upward trajectory that is expected to extend into the fall and winter.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/a...t-18336335.php

If COVID had a penis, how vigorously would OP blow it?

"University College London (UCL) has a slightly different emphasis – linking children’s social and emotional development with the employment situation of their parents."

"What the study did find, on the other hand, was that children were more likely to be affected if their parents’ employment situation changed."

"The widening of income-based gaps is in part attributable to differential patterns in how test score declines have accumulated across the scope of the pandemic. Specifically, during the 2020-21 school year, high-poverty schools continued to experience declines in math and had larger losses in reading, whereas low-poverty schools avoided further losses in math and saw less severe losses in reading. The result is that the pandemic has taken a larger toll on students in high-poverty schools."

So, it wasn't zoom that was the issue

But politicians said it's all over

Letting it rip is a perspective some believe to be best.

OP frauding again about masks. Trying to stop all social gathering, encouraging people to be isolated of course works for a little while. But then againlockdowns and the fear contagion caused far more deaths than lives saved.Sheeeeeeeiiiiiiit, we knew this 2 years ago. A big net loss of life directly from lockdowns and children are on average over a year behind where they were pre-Covid. And zero healthy children are at risk. Yes the kid with leukemia is at risk, like he's at risk for a near never endling list. He's not in school anyway.

Also gotta love the fact that the study is all about early in the pandemic. The virus later became a tiny fraction as lethal but also at least as contagious as Measles, a disease which has a long duration vaccine. No bearing on the last 20 months.

I get why some don't like these results and feel a need to drop unsupported hot takes in an effort to assuage the cognitive dissonance.

COVID rules are blamed for 23% dive in young children's development: Disturbing study shows scores in three key cognitive tests slumped between 2018 and 2021, with face mask rules among possible culprits

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...velopment.html

"The study concluded that 'children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.' "

"The authors said that boys from poor backgrounds were most at risk of a drop in cognitive testing scores, with richer parents better able to mitigate the effects of the pandemic."

Similar to above.

The conclusions suggest pandemics have broad impacts, especially for those of low SES. There are a lot of data supporting that position.