New Study Adds to Growing Body of Evidence Suggesting Mask Mandates Are Ineffective

COVID-19 mask mandates in schools have little to no effect

• Researchers evaluated two school districts in Fargo, North Dakota, in which one had a mask mandate and the other did not during the 2021-2022 academic year
• No significant difference between student case rates while the districts had differing masking policies nor while they had the same mask policies
• The impact of school-based mask mandates on COVID transmission in children is not fully established

Researchers in Spain found that mask mandates for children in Spain weren't linked to a lower rate of COVID-19 cases or transmission.

• In an evaluation of schoolchildren, researchers found that there was a much lower case rate in preschool, where there were no mandates when compared to older groups who were required to wear masks.

Researchers in Toronto, Canada, and California replicated a 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of counties in Arizona, published in The Lancet in May

• They discovered that cases quickly declined in the weeks after the CDC cut off its study and decreased more quickly in the counties that didn't have mask mandates.

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