The (Still) Unsettled Science of Masking
A new paper casts doubt on masks as a surefire COVID precaution—and people are already fighting about it.
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“Masking has widely been seen as one of the best COVID precautions that people can take,” my colleague Yasmin Tayag wrote this week in The Atlantic. But a new review paper suggests that population-level masking might offer far less COVID protection than was previously thought—and, as Yasmin points out, the findings are already fueling Americans’ mask wars. I called her to find out more.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
