Coronavirus: face masks save lives, Japanese study says

Wearing a face mask could reduce the risk of dying from Covid-19, according to a study by researchers in Japan.Using data collected by British market research company YouGov, the team from Miyazawa Clinic in Hyogo and the University of Houston-Victoria created a computer model to see how various factors affected death rates from the disease in different countries.By far the most significant was mask wearing, which had a 70 per cent impact on death rates, they said in a paper published on…

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