{"id":19675,"date":"2020-07-09T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19675"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:10:42","slug":"mask-wearing-and-the-development-of-flu-like-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19675","title":{"rendered":"<b>Cloth masks and the development of flu-like illnesses<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/ This is quite the paper on masks, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BMJ_Open?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BMJ_Open<\/a> in 2015: a randomized trial (the gold standard, yadda yadda) of 1600 health-care workers showed those wearing masks were 6 times (!) as likely to have flu-like illnesses as those in the control group after 4 weeks&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pst5aw9b0C\">pic.twitter.com\/pst5aw9b0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexBerenson\/status\/1280966807956992002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}