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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by krona on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:56AM (#36773442)
That's an ambiguous sentence. The main results of the study conclude:

Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence.

Which I think is definitive.

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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by renaudg on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:31AM (#36774123)
The original Plain Language Summary for this review stated that 'We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed.' This wording was open to misinterpretation, for which we apologize.
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