However, this does not make any mention of masks, or their potential role in cultivating bacteria that could lead to serious illness. It just concludes that bacteria were the killers, not the "spanish flu".
Edit: reusing masks is a bad idea precisely because of the pathogenic buildup, but people do it all the time.
can I get the rest of the link? jesus.
Not Fauci but... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
The published Fauci paper
However, this does not make any mention of masks, or their potential role in cultivating bacteria that could lead to serious illness. It just concludes that bacteria were the killers, not the "spanish flu".
Edit: reusing masks is a bad idea precisely because of the pathogenic buildup, but people do it all the time.
Strange that searching for "mask" returns 0 result.
Just looking to pinpoint maybe 1 specific paragraph since I'm rarely in the mood for entire articles.