I would bet that a non-zero number of kids ended up in the emergency room due to masking/masking policies worsening their asthma. And yet, any time anyone suggested this, the response was that it was better than getting covid, especially for someone with asthma. Except asthma doesn't raise the risk of severe covid and kids are at nearl…
I would bet that a non-zero number of kids ended up in the emergency room due to masking/masking policies worsening their asthma. And yet, any time anyone suggested this, the response was that it was better than getting covid, especially for someone with asthma. Except asthma doesn't raise the risk of severe covid and kids are at nearly zero risk of severe Covid.
Regardless of whether masks have an effect on transmission, this insistence that masks have no downside, there are no medical contraindications for masks and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and general denial that humans have evolved to see faces makes the AAP less credible on anything else pediatrics-related.
I would bet that a non-zero number of kids ended up in the emergency room due to masking/masking policies worsening their asthma. And yet, any time anyone suggested this, the response was that it was better than getting covid, especially for someone with asthma. Except asthma doesn't raise the risk of severe covid and kids are at nearly zero risk of severe Covid.
Regardless of whether masks have an effect on transmission, this insistence that masks have no downside, there are no medical contraindications for masks and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and general denial that humans have evolved to see faces makes the AAP less credible on anything else pediatrics-related.