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Re:Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany by bildung on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:49AM (#25300646)
In Jena there were about one dozend(?) infected people when masks were introduced.

Already wrong, the very article shows that Jena had about 145 verified cases in April 6. And test availability was absolute shit in March/April. It still isn't much better now, but from the relation of cases and deaths in the first and current second wave[0], we can infer that current testing is about 3 times that of April.

Actual cases therefore were at least about 450 in April 6, if we generously assume everyone who is positive gets tested right now. Jena only has a population of 110k BTW.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

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Re:Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany by WildParser on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:15AM (#25300809)
Take a look at the data from RKI dashboard for Jena. The number of actively infectious people in April that were not already quarantined is pathetic.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...

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