Dutch public fitness officials and the national government stand firm on what they see as a lack of clinical evidence on the effectiveness of non-medical masks in restricting the onset of the new coronavirus.At a news conference on Wednesday, July 29, officials kept the line.they had followed him since March: “There is no clinical evidence of the effectiveness of the non-medical mask.”
And so, apart from the “local experiences” in some communities, there will be no mask mandate in the Netherlands.With the exception of mandatory use of face mask on public transport, other Dutch people do not have to wear a mask in enclosed establishments, adding restaurants, bars, shops, supermarkets, cinemas, museums, libraries, schools and even hairdressers and nail salons.
The focus of preventive measures remains hygiene, physical distance and the limits of giant talks.
The statements made at the press convention were no general surprise.Two weeks ago, the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM) announced that there is no clinical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the mask in restricting the spread of the new coronavirus.
Certainly, to say that “there is no clinical evidence” that masks are an effective preventive measure is an exaggeration.While the latest recently published knowledge of masks has taken the form of preprints that have not yet been peer-reviewed, it is developing evidence to recommend the effectiveness of the mask, at least to some extent.
To illustrate this, an article published in Nature in early April suggests the effectiveness of the surgical mask.In this study, researchers found that face mask can prevent the transmission of human coronavirus and influenza viruses through symptomatic individuals.
In June, a post in Health Affairs warned that wearing a mask could possibly help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Compare the states in the US that require the use of the mask network to mitigate the new coronavirus with the states that have not followed it. Such a mandate The requirement to wear a mask in public related to a minimum in the daily expansion rate of coronavirus cases.
Some skeptical masks cited a questionable analysis of the effectiveness of masks, published on June 11 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study said masks were “the most effective way to avoid person-to-person transmission..” [Emphasis Added] Dozens of scientists have asked for the published article to be removed.It should be noted that in their letter to PNAS asking for retraction, scientists stated: “While masks are as much as an effective measure of public fitness to save it and slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the claims presented in this study are dangerously misleading.”Scientists’ fear was to opt for mask as the ultimate effective salvation measure when this was not demonstrated, and to reduce propagation calls for a multi-level set of measures.
To be sure that the evolution of coronavirus mask regulation has been complex and even confusing, yet the Dutch government’s supposedly denial position raises the question: how could a country like Japan, which never imposed a lockdown, control the coronavirus, and at the same time have the lowest influenza rate in more than a decade?It seems that the universal use of masks, among other things, has something to do with it.
Closer to the Netherlands in the Czech Republic, masks were an integral component of a highly effective government crusade that began at the start of the epidemic in March, long before other countries followed mask policies.The motto “my mask protects you, your mask protects” “turns out to have contributed to the Czech Republic’s ability to engage the virus and achieve a low mortality rate.
Although existing indications from countries with early masking requirements, such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan and the Czech Republic, are not consistent clinical evidence, they serve as an observational observation and examine existing additives, if desired, in masking.
The Netherlands has not exactly stood out as a primary example of top productive practices in the fight against coronavirus, it has not only fallen behind in mask policies, but to date, the RIVM does not arrive with thousands of deaths in retirement homes and homes.they were maximum probably the result of Covid-19, not shown through a PCR test. Only a handful of countries continue to apply such narrow criteria to identify deaths similar to Covid-19.Si the Netherlands would have done what their neighbour, Belgium, had done, adding the likely deaths of Covid-19, would be at the highest in the million-consistent death list.
It is therefore incomprehensible that the Netherlands should be reluctant, perhaps stubbornly, about its mask policy, while the Dutch, for their part, are not so positive about the situation.More than 50% of that mask deserves to be mandatory in all.indoor public spaces to help curb a momentary wave of coronavirus.
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I am an independent fitness analyst with over 22 years of experience in fitness care and pharmaceutical analysis.Specifically, I analyze the price (costs and benefits) of biological and pharmaceutical products, patients’ access to prescription drugs, regulatory frameworks for drug progression and reimbursement., and ethics in the distribution of fitness resources. I have more than 110 publications in industry journals and peer-reviewed journals, as well as newspapers and periodicals. I have also presented my paintings at industrial, commercial and educational congresses. From 1999 to 2017, he was an associate professor of studies at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.Prior to my appointment at Tufts, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and finished my PhD in Economics at the University of Amsterdam.PhD, I was a control representative at Accenture in The Hague, Netherlands.Currently, I work as a freelancer in a variety of studies, c teaching and writing projects.