MASK MADNESS: CDC Study Shows That 85% Of Those Infected With Covid Wore Masks "Always" Or "Often"

CDC Study Finds Vast Majority of Those Infected with COVID-19 ‘Always’ Wore Masks

Posted by Zachary Mettler | Oct 12, 2020 | Culture


A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that masks or cloth face coverings do little to prevent someone from contracting the novel coronavirus.

In surveying 154 patients who tested positive for the coronavirus, in the previous 14 days before their illness began, 71% reported using either a cloth face covering or a mask “always.” Another 14 % said the wore masks “often,” which adds up to 85%.

Only 4% of respondents said they never wore facemasks, and another 4% said they rarely did.

These case-patients were “symptomatic adults… with SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed.” The control-participants were symptomatic patients “who had negative SARS-CoV-2 test result.”

Of those surveyed from the control group, 74% reported wearing masks “always” while 15% worse masks “often.”

“In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control-participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the study noted.

This study, originally published in September, seems to reinforce the notion that wearing face masks or cloth coverings does little to prevent a person from contracting the coronavirus, though it may still help reduce the transmission of the virus.

The CDC currently claims that “cloth face coverings help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others.”

In September, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield was criticized for saying that cloth facemasks were better than a vaccine.

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