A study comparing data between counties in Kansas found that those that mandated masks for COVID-19 had a higher rate of death than those that did not.
The author, German physician Zacharias Foegen, chose Kansas because that state allowed each of its 105 counties to decide whether or not to require masks. A total of 81 counties decided not to implement the measure.
The paper published by the journal Medicine, "The Foegen Effect: A Mechanism by Which Facemasks Contribute to the COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate," concluded that "contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case," National File reported.
"Results from this study strongly suggest that mask mandates actually caused about 1.5 times the number of deaths or ∼50% more deaths compared to no mask mandates."
The study suggested a rationale for the increased risk ratio. Virions – the infective form of the virus outside the cell – "that enter or those coughed out in droplets are retained in the facemask tissue, and after quick evaporation of the droplets, hypercondensed droplets or pure virions (virions not inside a droplet) are re-inhaled from a very short distance during inspiration."
The author's theory, dubbed the "Foegen effect," is that the masks make the COVID-19 virions smaller, allowing them to spread deeper into the respiratory tract.
"They bypass the bronchi and are inhaled deep into the alveoli, where they can cause pneumonia instead of bronchitis, which would be typical of a virus infection."
Foegen concluded: "These findings suggest that mask use might pose a yet unknown threat to the user instead of protecting them, making mask mandates a debatable epidemiologic intervention."
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