The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends – Reason.com

Other governments seem to recognize that fact. As David Zweig notes in New York magazine, “many of America’s peer nations around the world—including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy—have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms” without experiencing more school-related COVID-19 outbreaks than the U.S. has seen.

Almost none of the studies compared schools with mask mandates to otherwise similar schools without them, again making causal inferences impossible.

https://reason.com/2021/08/25/the-evidence-supporting-mask-mandates-in-schools-is-weaker-than-biden-pretends/