{"id":691,"date":"2023-08-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=691"},"modified":"2023-08-31T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T02:44:15","slug":"lockdowns-and-face-masks-unequivocally-cut-spread-of-covid-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/lockdowns-and-face-masks-unequivocally-cut-spread-of-covid-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdowns and face masks \u2018unequivocally\u2019 cut spread of Covid, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen looking at the use of face masks and mask mandates, studies consistently reported the measures were an effective approach to reduce infection. The evidence further indicates higher-quality respirator masks \u2013 such as N95 masks \u2013 were more effective than surgical-type masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Society report<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/-\/media\/policy\/projects\/impact-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission\/covid-19-examining-the-effectiveness-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-executive-summary.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions [PDF, English]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen looking at the use of face masks and mask mandates, studies consistently reported the measures were an effective approach to reduce infection. The evidence further indicates higher-quality respirator masks \u2013 such as N95 masks \u2013 were more effective than surgical-type masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/lockdowns-and-face-masks-unequivocally-cut-spread-of-covid-report-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lockdowns and face masks \u2018unequivocally\u2019 cut spread of Covid, report finds<\/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":[18,19,224,225,175,223,14,7,143],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-masks","tag-non-pharmaceutical-interventions","tag-physical-distancing","tag-public-health-measures","tag-respirators","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tests","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}