Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks, up to February 2021

Denis Rancourt @denisrancourt

There is so much science being published these days about the harms of face masks that I can barely keep up. Writing a review now. Major harms to healthcare workers, school children, newborn infants... skin, breathing, migraines, infections, developmental injuries, psychological.

Feb 20, 2021

The article is organized into the following sections:

• Summary
  
• Introduction: Government’s onus to evaluate safety
  
• Context: Risk-benefit-harm analysis
  
• Healthcare workers (HCWs)
  
• Physiological impacts of face masks in healthy adults
  
• Psychological harm in the general population
  
• Infants and school children
  
• Microbial pathogen infections from masks
  
• Endnotes / References
  

The document can be downloaded as a pdf. 

Here it is . . .