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I don't know if this is one of their free Covid articles or not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/...ck&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Health
The section I found most interesting and compelling was this:
Particularly compelling, Dr. Gandhi said, is the data from cruise ships, which pack big groups of people into close quarters. More than 80 percent of those infected aboard Japan’s Diamond Princess in February — before masking had become common practice — came down with symptoms, she noted. But on another vessel that left Argentina in March, and on which all passengers were issued surgical masks after someone onboard came down with a fever, the level of symptomatic cases was below 20 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/...ck&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Health
The section I found most interesting and compelling was this:
Particularly compelling, Dr. Gandhi said, is the data from cruise ships, which pack big groups of people into close quarters. More than 80 percent of those infected aboard Japan’s Diamond Princess in February — before masking had become common practice — came down with symptoms, she noted. But on another vessel that left Argentina in March, and on which all passengers were issued surgical masks after someone onboard came down with a fever, the level of symptomatic cases was below 20 percent.