We wouldn’t gather 20-30 unvaccinated, unmasked adults all day in a small room. Why would we think it’s safe to do for our kids? Indoor masking is one of the few proven tools we have to reduce #covid19 transmission. Let’s not take away this option when the virus is surging.

With dozens of researchers at Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and IPA and several other organizations, we ran a cluster randomized trial involving almost 350,000 people and 600 villages in Bangladesh to assess the impact of community masking on COVID.

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Masks work. A new study of more than 340,000 adults across Bangladesh found that the more people wore masks, the less spread of Covid there was.

Hamilton Mask-up Parody Medley youtu.be/m_HZectGDlo via YouTube A fun way to be reminded that masks are still important!

The coverage by Nature Portfolio on the NORM Mask study conducted by @mushfiq_econ Jason Abaluck Laura Kwong Ashley Styczynski & how surgical masks fare against cloth ones is out! nature.com/articles/d4158… Heidi McAnnally-Linz @NeelaSaldanha Innovations for Poverty Action Stanford University GiveWell Gates Foundation

My feed seems to be (understandably) tired of the masks results. But I've rarely been more proud of a piece - esp grateful to actual study authors Ashley Styczynski & @mushfiq_econ for adding my name on this one. The piece not only lays out results but why they matter for the world.

Public health systems need greater investment and strengthening, not just for the COVID-19 pandemic. apnews.com/article/africa…

"What is going on right now is inevitable, it's a result of the world's failure to vaccinate in an equitable urgent and speedy manner. It is a result of hoarding [of vaccines] by high-income countries of the world, and quite frankly it is unacceptable." -Ayoade Alakija

Welcome to new Global Health Faculty Fellow Ashley Styczynski -- adjunct clinical professor of medicine & medical officer @ CDC's International Infection & Control Program. She researches infectious disease epidemiology, global health, emerging infections, & antimicrobial resistance.

The challenge with MDROs in LMICs is different from HICs but is rarely acknowledged. Different strategies are needed. Now. idsociety.org/science-speaks… via IDSA