A medical group issued a warning this week about wearing masks for respiratory viruses such as COVID-19, arguing that studies show they don’t prevent their spread and instead violate patients’ rights to informed consent.
“As mask mandates are contrary to the fundamental medical principle of informed consent, all masking mandates currently in place must be rescinded, and no future mandates should be imposed,” the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a longtime conservative-aligned medical group, said in a statement, likely responding to recent hospital mask mandates that were reimposed in August.
