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Covid-19: US doctor who called masks “dangerous” and vaccines a “human experiment” dies of coronavirus

BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2796 (Published 15 November 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n2796

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Re: Covid-19: US doctor who called masks “dangerous” and vaccines a “human experiment” dies of coronavirus

Dear Editor:

Just out of curiousity, how many of the doctors who've died of COVID-19 thought masks were "safe?''

Masks might well make a SARS-CoV-2 filled environment "safer,'' but compared to PAPR, it's hard to argue masks make that environment "safe.''

And then there is the complicated real world.

Why single out this poor, dead doctor for thinking masks dangerous? Depending on how they affect behavior, he might have had a point: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3676570

Competing interests: No competing interests

15 November 2021
Craig Medred
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