The authors of a recent article accepted in a top medical journal took issue with claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made about mask use and their effectiveness in preventing the spread of COVID-19. 

The criticizing manuscript was accepted in The American Journal of Medicine and claims that studies that were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report are “largely opaque to the general public.”

These researchers looked into how these mask studies were conducted – and how it was possible that mask use was considered effective in over 75 percent of the studies from 2019 on. They determined that these studies were inadequate and, thus, produced dubious results, according to The Epoch Times. 

“Over 60 percent of the included studies concluded masks were effective without statistically significant evidence to support this. For clinicians, simply reading the report conclusions pertaining to masks in MMWR may be misleading for advising patients and making health policy recommendations.”

The Epoch Times’s report noted that the MMWR is often referred to as “the voice of the CDC.”

The paper said that of the 77 studies cited in the journal, just 30 percent actually tested to see if masks could prevent transmission, yet 75 percent of the studies proved that masks work. Four studies even showed more COVID-19 cases in masking groups than the controlled ones, but “all four concluded masks were effective.”

TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal is one of the only publications that has doubted the effectiveness of masks since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. We saw the government mandates as a way our corrupt political class could tighten its grip on the public. It was never based on the science, but rather political science. See:

• “CDC JOURNAL SAYS AGENCY PROMOTED MASKS BASED ON UNRELIABLE DATA” (18 Jul 2023)
• “DANISH STUDY: MASKS OFFER VERY LIMITED PROTECTION” (5 Jan 2021)
• “DOUBLE MASK? DOUBLE-DOWN FAILURE” (9 Mar 2021)
• “FACING THE TRUTH, PART I: THE GREAT MASK-QUERADE” (23 Nov 2020)
• “FACING THE TRUTH, PART II: MORE EVIDENCE MASKS ARE INEFFECTIVE” (3 Nov 2020)
• “MORE EVIDENCE: MASKS OFFER ‘LITTLE, IF ANY, PROTECTION’” (20 Oct 2020)
• “FACE MASKS: POLITICS COUNTS, SCIENCE DOESN’T” (6 Oct 2020)
• “EUROPEAN HEALTH OFFICIALS AGREE: MASKS DON’T WORK” (29 Sep 2020)
• “NEVADA: WE NEED YOUR MONEY, TAKE OFF YOUR (WORTHLESS) MASKS” (15 Feb 2022)
• “STUDY PROVES: FACE MASKS INCREASES RISK OF STILLBIRTHS, TESTICULAR DYSFUNCTION” (25 Apr 2023)
• “BLOWING UP IN THEIR FACES: MASKS DON’T WORK IN PREVENTING COVID SPREAD” (14 Feb 2023)