Wearing face masks did not reduce risk of Covid-19 infection after first wave
New research from the UK’s University of East Anglia has found that wearing face masks did not lower the risk of Covid-19 infection following the initial surge of the omicron variant.
The analysis of official data found that several risk factors for infection altered significantly as the dominant variant in the UK changed from delta to omicron in December 2021.
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