Mask Facts - The Modern Health Show

Includes a meta-analysis published in 2016

CLINICAL EVIDENCE & SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

Disposable surgical face masks for preventing surgical wound infection in clean surgery.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138271/

The evolution of the surgical mask: filtering efficiency versus effectiveness.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9013247/

Surgical face masks in modern operating rooms—a costly and unnecessary ritual?
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/0195-6701(91)90148-2/pdf

Wearing of Caps & Masks Not Necessary During Cardiac Catheterization.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2766345/

Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data

Virus Transmissibility Data
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313150254.htm

Measles Virus Can Live for up to Two Hours in an Airspace
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/transmission.html

Droplets and Aerosols in the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009324

Closed environments facilitate secondary transmission of coronavirus
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v2

Demonstrating ineffectiveness of masks in reducing the spread of infectious disease

A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long

Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/

Surgical mask to prevent influenza transmission in households: a cluster randomized trial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21103330/

Use of surgical face masks to reduce the incidence of the common cold.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/

Systematic review of the efficacy of face masks and respirators against coronaviruses and other respiratory transmissible viruses for the community, healthcare workers and sick patients.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/#__ffn_sectitle

N95 masks v. SARS-CoV-2 particle size
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200521124646.htm

Surgical Mask vs N95 Respirator for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Workers.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/184819

Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks in protecting health care workers from acute respiratory infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/

The efficacy of medical masks and respirators against respiratory infection in healthcare workers.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.12474