{"id":2005,"date":"2023-05-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2023-10-09T04:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T08:11:47","slug":"masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masks work. Especially respirator-style N95 masks.<\/p>\n<p>Amid an ongoing pandemic and outbreaks of influenza and RSV caused by airborne viruses, arguing over the virus-blocking power of masks remains one of the COVID era\u2019s signature follies. Disconcertingly, despite decades of evidence of their efficacy, some of the disagreement comes from a few in the medical field itself, misusing science and endangering lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masks work. Especially respirator-style N95 masks.<\/p>\n<p>Amid an ongoing pandemic and outbreaks of influenza and RSV caused by airborne viruses, arguing over the virus-blocking power of masks remains one of the COVID era\u2019s signature follies. Disconcertingly, despite decades of evidence of their efficacy, some of the disagreement comes from a few in the medical field itself, misusing science and endangering lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn\u2019t<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,295,19,245,8,14,143],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-ffp3-respirators","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}