Study: Tight-fitting FFP2/N95 masks drastically reduce risk of COVID19 infection

This is an in vitro study. In vivo, there's a self-selection bias for non-occupational N95 use that would tilt observed difference in protection rates between N95 and surgical mask wearers.

Original study [0]

MPG press release [1]

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/49/e2110117118.full.pd...

[1] https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protectio...

Most people already early convinced themselves by pure logic that masks should have an impact, still today you see this opposed here&there.

Looks like a well carried out study and another data point, many influencing factors considered, data available.

Full tweet: The case for masking up: new study shows tight-fitting #FFP2 & vKN95 face masks drastically reduce the risk of #COVID19 infection - but even ill-fitting masks still significantly reduce the risk of infection https://bit.ly/31m9JKE @maxplanckpress

Their summary: https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protectio... "Well-fitting FFP2 masks reduce the risk at least into the per thousand range."

Full paper: "An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles" https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2110117118