'Living with COVID': Where the pandemic could go next

World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick.

That does nothing to disprove that they recommended masks on hospitals and to care for symptomatic patients

"There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage," Ryan said about masks and other medical supplies. "Right now the people most at risk from this virus are frontline health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific."

This completely contradicts your biased misrepresentation and is completely in line with the available evidence at the beginning of the pandemic, something you said you can prove is wrong but you never provide any actual evidence about it, is this going to be just another topic where you fail to provide such evidence?

What source do have that concludes people should not wear masks, such as a study done between when the virus was first discovered and March 31?

Your point is that evidence of benefit when used by asymptomatic people was available before 2020, if no evidence is available for either benefit or lack of benefit that still means you are wrong and the WHO (and every other scientific institution of the world) were not wrong by prioritizing their use in hospitals, which is what the evidence actually supported.

None, because none exit

That still means you are mistaken, because your point (that the WHO was mistaken) requires evidence that was not available at the time.

Your link clearly says the WHO recommended the use of masks for hospitals and people dealing with symptomatic patients.

World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick.

This was the same situation with every other scientific institution because that what what the evidence pointed out at the moment, it was not until months after the pandemic where the role of masks on prevention from asymptomatic people was found and justified changing the recommendation

Wrong.

What source do have that concludes people should not wear masks, such as a study done between when the virus was first discovered and March 31?

None, because none exit. It is just your defense of an agency that gave the wrong advice. It's like trying to rationalize an agency that advises only to wear seatbelts when traveling on a highway, and when driving on city roads seatbelts are not necessary. No one would make that silly claim now would they? Or, would they????

Not surprised about the no masks. The WHO even advised this.

Your link clearly says the WHO recommended the use of masks for hospitals and people dealing with symptomatic patients.

This was the same situation with every other scientific institution because that what what the evidence pointed out at the moment, it was not until months after the pandemic where the role of masks on prevention from asymptomatic people was found and justified changing the recommendation

Across the United Kingdom and Europe, scientists predict a series of COVID waves, as people spend more time indoors during the colder months, this time with nearly no masking or social distancing restrictions in place.

Not surprised about the no masks. The WHO even advised this.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html

People in the US are not using their heads. We now have a real POTUS who has addressed the nation about it but already a half million Americans were dead from it. And state governments are not taking any precautions or enforcing anything at all. Everybody's hyping up the 'back to school' jive when the schooling should be by video again. Football games, concerts (in arenas), theaters filled up showing CRAP flicks, and rumors galore loaded with lies lies lies. Some people think that BA-5 doesn't even exist, and some think it's 'cool' to blame it on and bash ethnic Oriental people as well. It's NOT. And the US has the most deaths of all the nations of the world. Very very SAD.

Anyone who says they can predict the future of this pandemic is either overconfident or lying," said David Dowdy

Or he’s just capable of multiplying simple transition matrices, like for example I am.