JasonB wrote:Doesn't help with immunity. Could potentially help with the severity. But it isn't a reason why the "herd immunity" rate would lower.
On a side note, new study in peer review is showing that wearing mask not only limits exposure, but when even when you do get infected, it reduces the amount of virus taken into the body limits the severity of the virus.
In short, there is a correlation between the amount of mask wearing and lower death rates/severe infection rates. They are trying to prove some level of causation.
One assumes the reference is to the PNAS published study. Here is the link to the study so one can read it for oneself.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32527856/And here is a rebuttal outlining what a pile of steaming manure the study is and why it's a steaming pile of manure
https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/identif ... -covid-19/This letter to the editor of PNAS has some highlights why the 'study' has flaws which might be of interest.
https://metrics.stanford.edu/sites/g/fi ... 820_v3.pdfAnd I'm sure the usually person attacks about how I'm ignorant, a denier, some (fill in the blank)ist.
Call me all the names you want. Name calling is the only consistent thing left on this board.