OpinionViewpoints

CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study

Save
CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study
A sign outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga., on Sept. 5, 2020. Matt Bannister/Shutterstock
Paul E. Alexander
Updated:
0:00
Commentary
We have published many rigorous and trustworthy high-quality evidence pieces across the last two years to show that the COVID lockdowns, school closures, face masks, and mask mandates were ineffective and even harmful in terms of curbing infection and deaths (see here, here, here). A very recent Johns Hopkins review by Herby et al. did an exemplary job at reviewing the evidence and declaring what we have always stated, this being that lockdowns had no impact on mortality.
Paul E. Alexander
Paul E. Alexander
Author
Dr. Paul Elias Alexander is a COVID-19 consultant researcher in the US-C19 research group. He was formerly an assistant professor at McMaster University in evidence-based medicine and research methods; a COVID pandemic evidence-synthesis consultant-adviser to WHO-PAHO Washington; and senior adviser on COVID pandemic policy at Health and Human Services. He was appointed in 2008 at WHO as a regional specialist/epidemiologist in Europe's regional office in Denmark, worked for the government of Canada as an epidemiologist for 12 years, was appointed as the Canadian in-field epidemiologist (2002–2004), and worked from 2017 to 2019 at Infectious Diseases Society of America as the evidence synthesis meta-analysis systematic review guideline development trainer. Dr. Alexander holds masters level study from York University Canada, and a masters in epidemiology from the University of Toronto, a masters in evidence-based medicine from the University of Oxford, and a doctorate in evidence-based medicine and research methods from McMaster University in Canada.
Related Topics