Vinay Prasad on Cloth Masking of Toddlers: warns against

What Prasad says

Dr. Vinay Prasad warns against cloth-masking toddlers. During the pandemic, he stated on social media that policies requiring “cloth mask 2 year olds” were unsupported by evidence and described masking without evidence as harmful.

His stated reasoning

Prasad’s stated reasoning is that imposing masks on two-year-olds was done without evidence of benefit, and that interventions without evidentiary support risk doing harm — particularly to young children’s communication and development — while providing unproven protection.

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