One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever

Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever by marcell on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:49PM (#24045675)

Well, it depends on what you think is "strong" evidence. A 10% reduction doesn't seem very compelling, and when you introduce the more advanced statistical analysis, that hurts the case in my eyes. There are probably less disruptive ways to get a 10% reduction.

I found that study from this meta study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20092668/ which reviews a lot of these studies for influenza. Note, however, that most of the studies only look at if the masks protect the individual, not whether masks stop the spread of influenza, but the evidence seems pretty inconclusive.

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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever by llukas on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:05PM (#24046133)

I agree that 10% reduction is not much in normal situation but not when ICU are at capacity or economy is shut down.

Results from weeks 4, 5 and 6 are interesting. Another study could see if this can be reproduced.

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