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Study Finds Contamination & Risk of Infection From Masks

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/9/e042045

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Contamination and washing of cloth masks and risk of infection among hospital health workers in Vietnam: a post hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial

  1. Chandini Raina MacIntyre1,2,
  2. Tham Chi Dung3,
  3. Abrar Ahmad Chughtai4,
  4. Holly Seale4,
  5. Bayzidur Rahman4

Abstract

Background In a previous randomised controlled trial (RCT) in hospital healthcare workers (HCWs), cloth masks resulted in a higher risk of respiratory infections compared with medical masks. This was the only published RCT of cloth masks at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective To do a post hoc analysis of unpublished data on mask washing and mask contamination from the original RCT to further understand poor performance of the two-layered cotton cloth mask used by HCWs in that RCT.

Setting 14 secondary-level/tertiary-level hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Participants A subgroup of 607 HCWs aged ≥18 years working full time in selected high-risk wards, who used a two-layered cloth mask and were part of a randomised controlled clinical trial comparing medical masks and cloth masks.

Intervention Washing method for cloth masks (self-washing or hospital laundry). A substudy of contamination of a sample of 15 cloth and medical masks was also conducted.

Outcome measure Infection rate over 4 weeks of follow up and viral contamination of masks tested by multiplex PCR.

Results:

Viral contamination with rhinovirus was identified on both used medical and cloth masks. Most HCW (77% of daily washing) self-washed their masks by hand.
  • The risk of infection was more than double among HCW self-washing their masks compared with the hospital laundry (HR 2.04 (95% CI 1.03 to 4.00); p=0.04).
  • There was no significant difference in infection between HCW who wore cloth masks washed in the hospital laundry compared with medical masks (p=0.5).

Conclusions Using self-reported method of washing, we showed double the risk of infection with seasonal respiratory viruses if masks were self-washed by hand by HCWs. The majority of HCWs in the study reported hand-washing their mask themselves. This could explain the poor performance of two layered cloth masks, if the self-washing was inadequate. Cloth masks washed in the hospital laundry were as protective as medical masks.

Both cloth and medical masks were contaminated, but only cloth masks were reused in the study, reiterating the importance of daily washing of reusable cloth masks using proper method. A well-washed cloth mask can be as protective as a medical mask.

Trial resgistration number ACTRN12610000887077.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/20/danish-mask-study-finally-published-masks-dont-work/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/18/greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-an-unsuspecting-public-says-medical-specialist/  According to Dr. Rodger Hodkinson, a medical specialist in pathology and virology, masks are useless and are doing nothing more than ‘virtue signaling’.

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Danish Mask Study Finally Published – Masks Don’t Work

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**UPDATE Nov. 2022**

Besides limiting oxygen and causing the wearer to re breathe bacteria, research now states there is probable aerosol transmission of the virus through floors and walls clearly showing the futility of porous masks. 

**UPDATE, Nov. 2021**

Watch a series of brief videos where Tyson Gabriel, a 20 year veteran industrial hygienist, safety engineer, lead researcher, and risk manager who trains doctors to implement exposure prevention plans in industry, examined each mask study on the CDC’s website.  Also see these reports.

Also, watch this 12 minute video by certified industrial hygienist Stephen Petty reiterate that cloth masks DO NOT protect against COVID. Further, he shares data showing how mental, emotional, and behavioral health issues in children have risen dramatically due to mask usage. A U.K. FOIA request showed only 3 deaths in children under 17 that were caused solely by COVID, compared to nearly 39,000 injuries and 79 deaths in the same age group reported to VAERS after the COVID shots.

Recently I posted that the largest study on masks done yet was rejected by 3 medical journals because the outcome did not support the continued fear-mongering to force people to do things that don’t work: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/06/danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-on-masks-has-been-rejected-by-3-medical-journals/

It was finally published here: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Please read it for yourself.

In a nutshell, it shows what we’ve known all along: masks make no difference in cases or level of COVID transmission. Period.  End of story.
But this information isn’t new or shocking – despite the mask religion being thrust on people globally.  Here’s why:
  1. Cases have continued despite extremely high mask-wearing rates:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/20/coronavirus-cases-hospitalizations-soar-in-hawaii-since-indoor-and-outdoor-mask-mandates/ This is proven especially when you look at the military with 100% compliance:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/17/pro-mask-study-withdrawn-after-virus-spread-in-counties-analyzed-by-researchers/
  2. The study showing a supposed benefit from masks was withdrawn due to numerous flaws:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/17/pro-mask-study-withdrawn-after-virus-spread-in-counties-analyzed-by-researchers/
  3. Unlike previous modeling studies used for mask mandates, the Danish study is an actual randomized trial to determine mask effectiveness in the community on transmission and number of cases.  Think of this difference as being in vivo (real life) instead of in vitro (in a contrived lab setting).  In real life people touch and wear masks repeatedly, are not properly fitted, and often don’t wash them.  Not to mention the fact viruses are smaller than the fabric used in masks and it only takes ONE viral particle to infect you.
  4. You can hardly sniff at a study that observes 6000 people with half in the control arm and half in the mask group using surgical masks (which are better than cloth). The primary outcome was number of infections after one-month.  Only 53 in the control arm and only 42 in the mask group got infected.  BTW: More drop-outs occurred in the mask group – which makes complete sense.  There was no difference in infection rate.  Let me repeat:  no difference in infection rate.  No matter how you try and spin this – the masks didn’t keep any less people from becoming infected.
  5. To the criticism of mask usage data being self-reported, even if you take out the 7% who didn’t adhere, it still doesn’t make a tittle of difference.
  6. Also, there was no difference in infection with other respiratory viruses either.
  7. The fact that most people were not wearing masks at this time in Denmark, giving them supposedly greater virus exposure, only strengthens the study’s finding.
  8. In order to get published it is obvious the authors were forced to continually capitulate by underestimating their findings by repeatedly referring to limitations and caveats.  Bowing down to external forces to suppress and downplay results that don’t fit the accepted narrative is the ‘new norm’ in science.  Prepare for more of it.  We must continue to be vigilant and call out biased, flawed work.

For more on the ineffectiveness of masks:

Wearing masks all the time is actually dangerous:  

Despite this, WI Governor Evers continues to order statewide mandates & lockdowns:  https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/07/30/heres-what-we-know-wisconsins-mask-mandate/5548036002/  Once again, he states he’s “following the science.” Violating the mask order could result in a fine up to $200. The order is here:  https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2020/07/30/file_attachments/1507337/EMO01-FaceCoverings.pdf

Please let him and our other pubic ‘authorities’ know that masks don’t protect people and isolating a healthy population has consequences:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/22/a-years-worth-of-suicide-attempts-in-four-weeks-the-unintended-consequences-of-covid-19-lockdowns/

Time for an appropriate response:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/06/covid-experts-there-is-another-way-please-sign-the-declaration/

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Visualizing PCR Amplification

https://rationalground.com/visualizing-pcr-amplification/

Visualizing PCR amplification

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BY LEN CABRERA

Important Excerpt:

A previous post by Jennifer Cabrera and Alex Rodriguez, “Why mass PCR testing of the healthy and asymptomatic is currently counter-productive,” discussed some of the problems with PCR tests. The short version is that documented studies show that PCR tests are too sensitive to identify live virus (infectious people) when they use a cycle threshold over 34, and almost all labs in the United States use at least 37, if not 40 or 42, cycles. The New York Times reported that these tests can produce 40% to 90% false positive results. (If you don’t have a subscription you can read the summary from Apoorva Mandavilli’s Twitter account.)

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Hopefully this once again shows that the entire COVID-19 debacle is built upon a house of cards.  A test designed to pretty much show only positives.

This purposely flawed testing is the  premise behind all of the lockdowns, restrictions, mask mandates, school closures, and contact tracing.

For more:

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Testing, Viruses

COVIDGATE: The Corruption of Clinical Trials (Part 1)

https://rightandfree.com/news/2020/11/17/covidgate-the-corruption-of-clinical-trials-part-one

COVIDGATE: The Corruption of Clinical Trials (Part One)

By Michelle Malkin

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“Truly striking.” “Tremendous.” “Extraordinary.” “Miraculous.” “A great day for science and humanity.” Those are just a few of the hyperbolic responses from government health officials and Big Pharma cheerleaders to preliminary COVID vaccine trial data released by Pfizer and Moderna this past week.

If it all sounds too good to be true, then congratulations: Your B.S. detector is fully charged and operational.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This commentary is spot on.  And it’s never been more important to have your B.S. detector fully charged than now when logic and proper debate has left science.  We’ve entered the “spin zone.”

Malkin points out the issues:

  1. Fauci’s continual flip-flopping on everything from masks to testing
  2. Normalcy can supposedly only return when everyone gets a yet to be proven vaccine 
  3. Various industries are exploring vaccine status verification systems – all of which is based upon press released write-ups from vaccine manufacturers
  4. Despite NOT being peer-reviewed, Fauci states “it’s all good”
  5. No one knows length of protection of the vaccine
  6. No one knows how this affects children as schools prepare to mandate the vaccine to obtain an education
  7. No one knows the synergistic effects of this vaccine with others
  8. No one knows the long-term effects of this vaccine
  9. The Pfizer clinical data is explained here: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/14/pfizer-covid-vaccine-frenzy-high-volume-of-adverse-reactions-expected/
  10. The Moderna trial is also being tested on those with a low risk of COVID
  11. The question to ask is how did they define a positive COVID case?
  12. Malkin points to the BMJ which defined this as including those even with only mild symptoms to qualify.  So people with simply a cough and positive lab test qualify.  Please see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/01/us-scientist-manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-for-any-strain-of-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/  Many of these people don’t have COVID
  13. ZERO trials were designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcomes (hospital admission, intensive care, or death)
  14. ZERO trials are designed to determine if they interrupt viral transmission
  15. Moderna’s trial lacks adequate statistical power to assess severe COVID-19 outcomes.  The reason?  Hospital admissions and deaths are too uncommon in the study population of 30,000 people

Important excerpt:

Vaccinating billions of people to prevent a disease with a 99% survival rate for people under 70 — all based on clinical trial efficacy analysis of less than 200 COVID-19 cases involving patients with coughs and unreliable PCR tests with significant false positive rates — is not the triumph of science. It’s corruption and it’s the tip of the iceberg.

For more:  

There is a full-court press to get everyone to take the experimental DNA vaccine:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/18/who-taps-anti-conspiracy-crusader-to-sway-public-opinion-on-covid-vaccine/

For more on the COVID vaccine:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/inovio-covid-19-vaccine-uses-electricity-to-drive-dna-into-body-cells/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-vaccine-explained/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/11/how-covid-19-vaccine-can-destroy-your-immune-system/

Excerpt:

  • According to a study that examined how informed consent is given to COVID-19 vaccine trial participants, disclosure forms fail to inform volunteers that the vaccine might make them susceptible to more severe disease if they’re exposed to the virus
  • Previous coronavirus vaccine efforts — including those for SARS, MERS and RSV — have revealed a serious concern: The vaccines have a tendency to trigger antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)
  • ADE means that rather than enhance your immunity against the infection, the vaccine actually enhances the virus’ ability to enter and infect your cells, resulting in more severe disease than had you not been vaccinated

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“Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public” Says Medical Specialist

**UPDATE Jan. 2023**

Proving Dr. Hodkinson correct, Dr. David Martin exposes the names and faces of the people killing humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw  Approx. 5 Min

Source: Council Chambers – City of Edmonton, Community and Public Services Committee 11/13/2020.

Since Youtube censored this video, you can hear Hodkinson on Rumble here.

“This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.

There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus other than protecting older more vulnerable people.  It should be thought of as nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola, it’s not SARS.  It’s politics playing medicine and that’s a very dangerous game.

I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level.  It should all stop tomorrow.”  ~ Dr. Rodger Hodkinson

Dr. Rodger Hodkinson, a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Committee in Ottawa, and CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta and chairman of a medical biotechnical company which is selling a COVID test.

Hodkinson reminds the listener that a positive test does NOT indicate clinical infection.

Hodkinson also supports The Great Barrington Declaration:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/06/covid-experts-there-is-another-way-please-sign-the-declaration/

Transcript found here: https://dryburgh.com/narrative-control/2020/11/coronavirus-hoax-roger-hodkinson/

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