• The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous.
• “There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. “Full stop.”
• But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?
• “Makes no difference — none of it,” said Jefferson.

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