An epidemiologist blasted teachers union chief Randi Weingarten — saying she fudged a scientific study to wrongly argue to Congress that schools should have been kept closed during the height…
posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that detailed low levels of coronavirus transmission in school, claimed the American Federation of Teachers president misrepresented the evidence in her testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
“I was senior author of this … study & as we said in our paper, because we had no control group: ‘It was not possible to determine the specific roles that mask wearing and other disease mitigation strategies played in the low rate of disease spread,’” Høeg said on Twitter.“In other words because we had no unmasked control group, our study did not show masks prevented transmission,” she added. “It amazes me this is so difficult for people to understand.
, citing a need for “ventilation systems, but also for buying the damned masks for the cleaning equipment, for the nurses that we’re going to need.”AP
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