Title:
Landmark Danish study finds no significant effect for facemask wearers
Authors:
Prof Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson
[Both from the University of Oxford]
Published:
The Spectator, 19 November 2020
From the article:
Do face masks work? Earlier this year, the UK government decided that masks could play a significant role in stopping Covid-19 and made masks mandatory in a number of public places. But are these policies backed by the scientific evidence?
Yesterday marked the publication of a long-delayed trial in Denmark which hopes to answer that very question. The ‘Danmask-19 trial’ was conducted in the spring with over 6,000 participants, when the public were not being told to wear masks but other public health measures were in place. Unlike other studies looking at masks, the Danmask study was a randomised controlled trial – making it the highest quality scientific evidence.