Rigorous international study of N95 masks upends federal COVID narrative
(justthenews.com)
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What part of "the N95s are a smidge better than the surgical masks" is confusing you?
oh, I was lead to believe that the n95 masks were vastly superior to the surgical masks in terms of keeping out potential infectious particles, so seeing as the results are so close did the surgical masks excel or did the n95 masks fail?
Who led you to believe that? A research paper? A journal article? Some anonymous person on the Internet?
so n95 masks were always belied to be about on par with surgical masks despite not being sealed. I don't think that makes any ounce of sense. please just answer the questions instead of deflecting. did the surgical masks excel or did the n95 masks fail?
You are very studiously ignoring the conclusions of the study..
For the last time: I'll repeat the conclusion in the post, which compared N95s to surgical masks: "...no statistically significant real-world performance difference between surgical masks, N95s"
And I'll quote from the article the post linked to: "Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM) this week and led by researchers at Canada's McMaster University, the study found no statistically significant difference in protection between the two kinds of masks in healthcare facilities in Canada, Israel, Pakistan and Egypt." https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/highest-protection-rigorous-international-study-n95-masks-upends
If you continue to think that one mask or the other failed, that's on you.