b'Pandemic Safety Rule #2: HeALTH BITS & PIECES Dont Wear a Cloth MaskBy Dan Kenner, Ph.D., LAc The World Health Organization Neither Health Freedom News nor I are suggestingwarned that wearing a medical mask that any such medical care or treatmentbe conducted without competent may create a false sense of security medical advice and supervision. against COVID-19 and that no evidence is available on its usefulness to protect non-sick persons. A study published Pandemic Safety Rule #1:of 1918-1919, it was observed that thein the British Medical Journal found that Dont Shelter in Place simple act of being outdoors, exposed tohealthcare workers caught viruses from New research suggests that thefresh air and sunshine, appeared to havetheir patients 13 times more often if they COVID-19 virus spreads more readilya strong therapeutic effect on both limit- wore a cloth mask than if they wore a indoors. A recent study on outbreak pat- ing infections and speeding up recoverymedical mask. A Chinese study found terns noted that rapid person-to-persontime among the infected. that a medical mask was no more pro-transmission of COVID-19 appears likelyFrieden T, Lee C, Identifying and In- tective against viruses than wearing no to have occurred in healthcare settings,terrupting Superspreading EventsIm- mask at all. The studies claim that cloth on a cruise ship, and in a church. In- plications for Control of Severe Acutemasks provide breeding grounds for fection clusters were associated withviruses and that medical masks are inef-closed environments such as fitnessRespiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2,fective against them.Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020; centers, restaurants, and hospitals. Stale26(6), doi:10.3201/eid2606.200495; Qian indoor air may play a decisive role. AH, Li Y, Seto W, et al., Natural ventilation study of ventilation and infection rates infor reducing airborne infection in hospitals, hospital rooms occupied by tuberculosisBuilding and Environment, 2010; 45: patients showed that older pre-1950s hos- 559-565; Hobday R, Cason J, The open-air pital wards, with large windows on moretreatment of pandemic influenza, Amer-than one wall and tall ceilings, had lowerican Journal of Public Health, 2009; 99 TB-infection rates than more modern de- Suppl 2(Suppl 2): S236S242, doi:10.2105/signs. During the Spanish flu pandemicAJPH.2008.134627. WHO, Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19, 6 April 2020, at https://www.who.int/publications-detail/advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-commu-nity-during-home-care-and-in-healthcare-settings-in-the-context-of-the-novel-coro-navirus-(2019-ncov)-outbreak; MacIntyre C, Seale H, Dung T, et al., A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers, British Medical Journal Open, 2015, Vol. 5, No.4: e006577, doi:10.1136/ bm-jopen-2014-006577; MacIntyre C, et al., A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing fit-tested and non-fit-tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus infection in health care workers, Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 2011; 5(3): 170-179, doi: 10.1111/j.17502659.2010.00198.x. 28 H ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2020'