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Many people wore masks back in the 1918 Spanish Flu, yet many Americans were still getting sick in insane rates. (commons.wikimedia.org)
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– Thoborius 28 points ago +28 / -0

The CDC site has a page where they compiled 70+ years of mask research and found that cloth mask "provide no significant protection from influenza." The funny thing about that is flu strains range from almost the exact same size as covid, to slightly smaller than covid.

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– raticy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Do have the link for that you could share?

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