Gen Til wears a protective face mask while exercising in the Planet Granite climbing gym during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco, Thursday March 4, 2021. The gym opened today to allow ten percent capacity. (AP Photo / Jeff Chiu)
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The CDC has admitted that face masks do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19 amid mounting pressure to end mask mandates in the U.S. not exceeded. of mistake.
Merchant Jesus Barajas (C) wears a face mask as he displays long-stemmed roses for sale ahead of the Valentine’s Day holiday at the Southern California flower market on Feb. 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images)
The study found that between March and December 2020, face mask orders reduced infection rates by 1.5 percent over the rolling two-month periods. The masks were 0.5 percent effective in the first 20 days of the mandates and less than 2 percent after 100 days.
A traveler wears a face mask while checking his phone in the arrivals hall outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid heightened travel restrictions according to Covid-19 on Jan. 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California . (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images)
The CDC added that it still recommends wearing face masks, although it admits such mandates don’t make any statistical difference. In the meantime, some states across the country have slowly returned to normal by ending the masking of mandates.
NEW CDC REPORT: Mask commits to reduce COVID cases by approximately 1.5% over two months pic.twitter.com/wcoKXlJkDN
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