Day 736: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Mask Study

While the public's patience for the endless flow of bad mask papers seems to be waning, Vinay Prasad remains alert and ready to tear into the recent nadir of mask studies:

Ultimately, the CDC & NIH failed us. The agencies should have run a half dozen masking cluster RCTs under different conditions, and for different ages. We were starving, and we needed this loaf of bread. Instead, the CDC published flawed study after flawed study. It didn’t even give us crumbs; it gave us a fistful of sand. Starving, we swallowed each grain, and begged for more. Medical leaders told us to fill our bowl before it runs out. Science lies on its deathbed.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up three tenths of a percentage point on Friday.