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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by brigandish on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:31AM (#22652970)
That paper also has:

> Hand washing (1.447, 1.274–1.644) and gargling (1.319, 1.183–1.471), however, were not associated with protection. In the natural setting, hand washing and gargling showed a negative association, which may have been due to inappropriate infection control measures or aggregating infected and non-infected children to conduct those measures.

So hand washing isn't effective and masks are? That's the opposite of what we're being told for a different disease. Are you going to say we shouldn't wash our hands?

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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by jjeaff on Sunday March 22, 2020 @06:07PM (#22659183)
I think there are plenty of other studies showing that hand washing can make a big difference.

But I don't think that negates the whole paper. It could be that the methodology used for the hand washing data is more flawed than the mask portion.

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