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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All masks help. None of the masks "work", becuase they are designed to help, not to 'work' if for example someone caughs the virus directly into your face. It's not misinformation because there are numerous studies that have shown how much cloth masks (and social distancing) have helped reduce transmission, especially for strains before the opticron strains.

Why did some of the states without mask mandates or lockdowns do better than the ones with it then? We should have seen a correlation if the measures were successful.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They didn't do better. They under-reported cases and deaths.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No way those hospitals chose to loose out of federal monies. At my wife's hospital, the positive test count included every test done on a patient, so one patient with covid represented multiple positive tests.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An interesting problem that would skew statistics, I agree.

In many countries and states, COVID patients haven't been to hospitals or have had tests, for various financial, personal, and logistic reasons.