Masks are working!

CDC recommends them, RKI also while there are still some people who raise doubts, people who are wearing either pseudo-masks or face shields.

So here is another argument by the most contagious airborne disease – measles has a secondary attack rate of >90%. Using masks should have reduced the incidence. And it did – as shown by a recent eurosurveillance.org paper

Average number of measles cases in 2010-2019 and number of measles cases in 2020 reported to TESS (ECDC) by month of statistics during the January to May measles season peaks, EU/EEA and the UK and selected countries. https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.31.2001390#abstract_content

This is fully backed by live European data http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu

http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx 28Sept20

 

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