Mask wearing remains the best public health measure in order to be protected against the COVID-19 virus, reducing its spread by 53%, according to a new peer-reviewed study in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers said results highlight the need to keep respecting precautionary measures, including face coverings, social distancing, and handwashing, alongside vaccination.
The results showed that Mask-wearing is the single most effective public health measure, helping the most avoid the affection against the COVID-19 virus.
The study found that physical distancing reduces infection by 25%, and hand washing was found to reduce the COVID-19 pandemic’s affection by 53%.
As for vaccination, researchers said anti-COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective in saving lives around the world, but most do not confer 100% protection, and it is still unknown whether the jabs will prevent the future new strains of COVID-19 variants or not.
Those results are the fruit of thirty-five studies, providing estimates on the effectiveness of individual public health measures that were conducted in all continents so far, including Asia (n=11), the US (n=9), Europe (n=7), the Middle East (n=3), Africa (n=3), South America (n=1), and Australia
(n=1). Thirty-four of the studies were observational and one was a randomized controlled trial.
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