228 Scientific Studies & Medical Articles
Show Masks Don’t Reduce COVID-19
Spread But Harm Human Health

Updated March 13, 2022

By LUCAS WALL

Masks are totally ineffective at reducing the transmission of COVID-19 but are harmful to our health in at least 68 ways. Below are links to 228 scentific studies, medical articles, and videos I’ve compiled during the past nine months while suing the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services, Transportation Security Administration, and seven airlines to stop their mask mandates in the transportation sector.

I am chairman of Americans Against Mask Mandates, a coalition of more than 600 Americans fighting to stop mandatory muzzling in the United States. As part of this work, I’m the plaintiff in Wall v. CDC, the first lawsuit in the nation to challenge all aspects of the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate. I’m also the lead plaintiff in Wall v. Southwest Airlines, the first lawsuit attacking the mask mandates of seven airlines (Southwest, Alaska, Allegiant, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, and Spirit). And I’m the lead petitioner in one of six lawsuits (Wall v. TSA) brought by disabled travelers who can’t medically wear masks challenging TSA’s legal authority to require passengers and employees throughout the nation’s entire public-transportation system muzzle themselves.

If you know of additional studies showing masks don’t work and hurt our health, please share them with me at lewnwdc77-blog@yahoo.com.

20 Reasons Mandatory Face Masks Are Unsafe, Ineffective, & Immoral (Global Research)

6 Times the Media Credited Masks with Stopping a Pandemic that Then Spread Even More (The Blaze)

A Cluster Randomized Trial of Cloth Masks Compared with Medical Masks in Healthcare Workers (British Medical Journal)

A Group of Parents Sent Their Kids’ Face Masks to a Lab for Analysis (Town Hall)

A Model to Explain Statewide Differences in COVID-19 Death Rates (Chapman University)

Adolescents’ Face Mask Usage & Contact Transmission in Novel Coronavirus (Journal of Public Health Research)

Adverse Effects of Prolonged Mask Use among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 (Journal of Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology)

Aerosol Penetration & Leakage Characteristics of Masks Used in the Health Care Industry (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Aerosol Penetration through Surgical Masks (AJIC)

All That Mask-Wearing Could Be Giving You (Gasp!) Mouth Fungus (Well & Good)

America’s Frontline Doctors Summit 2 — Face Masks (America’s Frontline Doctors)

Analysis of the Effects of COVID-19 Mask Mandates on Hospital Resource Consumption & Mortality at the County Level (Southern Medical Journal)

Application to Covid-19 (Corbin Barr, Independent Health Researcher)

Are Cloth Masks Still Effective? And Other Questions Answered (British Medical Journal)

Are Masks Stopping Us From Building Up Immunity? (Daily Sceptic)

Arguments Against Mask Requirements During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic (Ballotpedia)

As Face Masks Become the Norm, Many Wearers Quietly Suffer “Mask Anxiety” (Salon)

Austrian Court Overturns Coronavirus Mask Mandate in Schools (Straits Times)

Book Review “The Case Against Masks” by Dr. Judy Mikovits (Vaxxter)

Can the Elastic of Surgical Face Masks Stimulate Ear Protrusion in Children? (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery)

Carbon Dioxide Increases with Face Masks but Remains Below Short-Term NIOSH Limits (BMC Infectious Diseases)

Carbon Dioxide Rebreathing in Respiratory Protection Devices (Ergonomics)

Carbon Dioxide Rebreathing with Close-Fitting Face Respirator Masks (Association of Anesthetists)

CDC Admits: No Conclusive Evidence Cloth Masks Work Against COVID (The New American)

CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds — Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers (One America News Network)

CDC Reversal on Indoor Masking Prompts Experts to Ask, “Where’s the data?” (The Washington Post)

CDC: Schools with Mask Mandates Didn’t See Statistically Significant Different Rates of COVID (Fee.org)

CDC Study: 85% of COVID-19 Cases in July Were People Who Often or Always Wear Masks (The Blaze)

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks (The Federalist)

Chemical Cocktail Found in Face Masks (Eco Textile)

Child Abuse: Masked Schoolchildren Are Harmed Physically, Psychologically, Behaviorally & Suffer from 24 Distinct Health Issues (Patriot Rising)

Children Wearing Masks Could be Exposed to Dangerous Levels of Carbon Dioxide, Study Finds (Daily Mail)

Children Wearing Masks Will Suffer Irreversible Brain Damage (Great Mountain Publishing)

Cloth Masks Are NOT Enough to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 (Daily Mail)

Community & Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults (CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report)

Comparison of Filtration Efficiency & Pressure Drop in Anti-Yellow Sand Masks (Aerosol & Air Quality Research)

Comparison of the Filter Efficiency of Medical Nonwoven Fabrics Against 3 Different Microbe Aerosols (Biocontrol Science)

Comprehensive Analysis of 50 States Shows Greater Spread with Mask Mandates (The Blaze)

Contact Settings & Risk for Transmission in 3,410 Close Contacts of Patients with COVID-19 in Guangzhou, China (ACP Journals)

Contamination by Respiratory Viruses on Outer Surface of Medical Masks Used by Hospital Healthcare Workers (BMC Infectious Diseases)

Could Wearing a Face Mask Trigger Lung Disease? (Green Med Info)

Cover Up: The Lack of Evidence for Vaccinate or Mask Policies (BC Medical Journal)

COVID & Face Masks: To Wear or Not to Wear? (Medical News Today)

COVID-19: Continuous Wearing of Mask Aggravates Risk of Infection. “Psychological Terrorism”? (Global Research)

Covid-19 Face Masks: A Potential Source of Microplastic Fibers in the Environment (Science of the Total Environment)

COVID-19, Shortages of Masks & the Use of Cloth Masks as a Last Resort (University of New South Wales)

COVID-19 Will the National Mask Mandate Save Us? (Association of American Physicians & Surgeons)

Data Do Not Block Cloth Masks to Limit COVID-19, Experts Say (CIDRAP News)

Death by Mask: Mask Wearing, Bacterial Pneumonia Infections & the 1918 Flu Video (Wake Up Planet)

Definitive Study Establishes Conclusively Not Only that Masks Don’t Work, but Why (Association of American Physicians & Surgeons)

Disposable Surgical Face Masks for Preventing Surgical Wound Infection in Clean Surgery (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

Disposable Surgical Face Masks: A Systematic Review (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Do Masks Work Video (PBS)

Do Masks Work? The Science that Supports or Rebuts Whether Face Masks Stop the Spread of COVID-19 (The Helpful Dad)

Do Physical Measures Such as Hand-Washing or Wearing Masks Stop or Slow Down the Spread of Respiratory Viruses? (Cochrane)

Do Surgical Masks Stop the Coronavirus? (Slate)

Doctor Raises Serious Doubts About Effectiveness of Face Masks, Busts Common Misperceptions (Natural News)

Doctors Say Avoiding Illness Is Literally in Flyers’ Hands (Travel Weekly)

Does Wearing a Face Mask During the COVID-19 Pandemic Increase the Incidence of Dermatological Conditions in HCWs? (JMIR Dermatology)

Dr. Marty Makary Explains Why Renewed Panic over COVID-19 Is Unwarranted (American Enterprise Institute)

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Effectiveness of N95 Respirators Versus Surgical Masks Against Influenza: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis (Chinese Cochrane Center)

Effectiveness of Personal Protective Measures in Reducing Pandemic Influenza Transmission (Epidemics)

Effects of Prolonged Use of Facemask on Healthcare Workers in Tertiary Care Hospital During COVID-19 Pandemic (Indian Journal of Otolaryngology & Head & Neck Surgery)

Effectiveness of Surgical & Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS-CoV-2: A Controlled Comparison in 4 Patients (ACP Journals)

Effects of Wearing N95 & Surgical Facemasks on Heart Rate, Thermalstress & Subjective Sensations (International Archives of Occupational & Environmental Health)

E-Mails from Dr. Anthony Fauci (Dr. Anthony Fauci)

Everyone Wore Masks During the 1918 Flu Pandemic. They Were Useless. (The Washington Post)

Evidence for Community Cloth Face Masking to Limit the Spread of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review (Cato Institute)

Examining the Research for Mask Mandates (Follow the Mask Science)

Excerpts from Studies Involving Mask-Wearing (Unknown)

Exercise with Facemask; Are We Handling a Devil’s Sword? – A Physiological Hypothesis (Medical Hypotheses)

Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air with or without Face Masks in Healthy Children (JAMA Pediatrics)

Fabric Masks the Belgian Government Gave Pharmacists May Be Toxic (Brussels Times)

Face Coverings Are Unsafe & Ineffective – Here’s All the Evidence (Daily Expose)

Face Masks Are a “Ticking Plastic Bomb” for the Environment (Daily Mail)

Face Masks: Benefits & Risks During the COVID‑19 Crisis (European Journal of Medical Research)

Face Masks Cause Children to Inhale Dangerous Levels of Carbon Dioxide at 6 Times the Safe Limit (Daily Sceptic)

Face Masks Could Increase Risk of Getting Coronavirus, Medical Chief Warns (Independent)

Face Masks Cut Disease Spread in the Lab, But Have Less Impact in the Community (The Conversation)

Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Simple Protection Tool with Many Meanings (Frontiers in Public Health)

Face Masks for Children Are Damaging More than Just Their Mental Health (Telegraph)

Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy (Citizens for Free Speech)

Face Masks to Prevent Transmission of Influenza Virus a Systematic Review (Cambridge University Press)

Face Masks, Lies, Damn Lies, & Public Health Officials “A Growing Body of Evidence” (Research Gate)

Facemasks & Similar Barriers to Prevent Respiratory Illness Such as COVID-19 a Rapid Systematic Review (medRxiv)

Facemasks in the COVID-19 Era: A Health Hypothesis (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Farce Mask It’s Only Safe for 20 Minutes (Sydney Morning Herald)

Fauci Admits He Wore Mask for Optics: “Didn’t Want to Look Like I Was Giving Mixed Signals” (Washington Examiner)

Fox News Sunday 9-5-21 Transcript (Fox News Channel)

Frequently Asked Questions (Follow the Mask Science)

Headaches Associated with Personal Protective Equipment (American Headache Society)

Health Authorities Silent on Damage to Lungs Caused by Graphene in Masks (Coronanews123)

Health Canada Issues Advisory for Disposable Masks with Graphene (CBC News)

Here’s One Kind of Mask that Won’t Protect You from the Delta Variant (The Hill)

How Effective Are Masks in Stopping the Spread of COVID-19? (Maciver Institute)

How to Overcome Mask Anxiety (Cleveland Clinic)

Improper Use of Medical Masks Can Cause Infections (Anadolu Agency)

IPBES Workshop on Biodiversity & Pandemics (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & ES)

Is a Mask Necessary in the Operating Theatre? (Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Is a Mask that Covers the Mouth & Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use & Free of Potential Hazards? (International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health)

Israel COVID Cases Shot Up After Mask Mandate (Johns Hopkins CSSE Data)

Landmark Danish Study Finds No Significant Effects for Facemask Wearers (Spectator)

Lockdowns & Mask Mandates Do Not Lead to Reduced COVID (American Institute for Economic Research)

Long-Term Mask Use Breeds Microbes that Infiltrate the Lungs & Contribute to Advanced Stage Lung Cancer (Science News)

Long-Term Mask Use May Contribute to Advance Stage Lung Cancer, Study Finds (Blacklisted News)

Making Pupils Wear Masks Is Pointless & Cruel (Reaction Life)

Mandatory Masks Endanger Your Health & Your Liberties (Stand for Health Freedom)

Mandatory Masks in the Age of Climate Emergency & Planetary Biodiversity Crisis (Dennis Riches)

Many Studies Find that Cloth Masks Do Not Stop Viruses Like COVID (The Federalist)

Mask Anxiety, Face Coverings, & Mental Health (Mind)

Mask Facts (Association of American Physicians & Surgeons)

Mask Facts — The Science & History of Masks in Medicine (The Model Health Show)

Mask Facts Companion Video (The Model Health Show)

Mask Fatigue (Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association)

Mask Harms in Kids: 68% of Parents Report Alarming Psychological & Physical Problems in First-of-Its-Kind Study (Green Med Info)

Mask Letter Template — Adult (The Healthy American)

Mask Madness – The Death of Science (No Maskers)

Mask Mandate & Use Efficacy for COVID-19 Containment in US States (International Research Journal of Public Health)

Mask Mandates for Children Mostly Harmful: Professor of Medicine (The Epoch Times)

Mask Mandates May Affect a Child’s Emotional, Intellectual Development (WISH TV)

“Mask Mouth” Is a Seriously Stinky Side Effect of Wearing Masks (New York Post)

Mask Production Video (YouTube)

Mask Safety — Your Face Mask May Be Making You Sick (Jennifer Margulis)

Mask States vs. No Mask States (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)

Mask Whistleblowers Tell All (The High Wire)

Mask-Free Sweden Is Close to ZERO Daily Covid Deaths as Country’s Chief Epidemiologist Plays Down Fears (News Break)

Mask-Induced Anxiety Is Real (The Bold Italic)

Masking: A Careful Review of the Evidence (American Institute for Economic Research)

Masking Children Is Unnecessary & Harmful (City Journal)

Masking Children: Tragic, Unscientific, & Damaging (American Institute for Economic Research)

Masking Lack of Evidence with Politics (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

Masking the Issue of Dry Eye (Ophthalmology Times)

“Maskne” Is Now a Thing: Here’s What to Do If Your Face Mask Is Making You Break Out (Health.com)

“Maskne” Is Real, Local Dermatologist Says (CBS Baltimore)

Masks (Caucus 99%)

Masks — Civil Liberties (Dr. Simone Gold)

Masks Are Experimental Medical Devices that Must Be Optional, According to Law (The Blaze)

Masks Are Neither Effective or Safe: A Summary of the Science (Unknown)

Masks Are Symbolic, Say Dr. Fauci & The New England Journal of Medicine (Hennessys Views)

Masks DO NOT Protect Anyone — Even in Operating Rooms! (Benjamin Fulford)

Masks Do Nothing to Stop the Spread of COVID & Are Harming Children (The Civil Rights Lawyer)

Masks Don’t Work, Are Damaging Health & Are Being Used to Control Population (Life Site News)

Masks Don’t Work (The Healthy American)

Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy (RC Reader)

Masks for Prevention of Viral Respiratory Infections among Health Care Workers & the Public (Canadian Family Physician)

Masks in Different Jurisdictions (Yinon Weiss)

Masks on the Beach: The Impact of COVID-19 on Marine Plastic Pollution (OceansAsia)

Masks Simply Don’t Work The Truth About COVID-19 & Masks (Asia Pacific Today)

Masks, False Safety, & Real Dangers, Part 1: Friable Mask Particulate & Lung Vulnerability (Boris Borovoy, Colleen Huber, Q Makeeta)

Masks, False Safety, & Real Dangers, Part 2: Microbial Challenges from Masks (Primary Doctor Medical Journal)

Masks, False Safety, & Real Dangers, Part 3: Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, & Physiological Effects (Primary Doctor Medical Journal)

Masks, False Safety, & Real Dangers, Part 4: Proposed Mechanisms by Which Masks Increase Risk of COVID-19 (Primary Doctor Medical Journal)

Masks-for-All for COVID-19 Not Based on Sound Data (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Medical Doctor Warns that Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise from Mask Wearing (Global Research)

Medical Mask Exemptions Video (America’s Frontline Doctors)

Medical Masks (Journal of the American Medical Association)

Modeling of the Transmission of Coronaviruses … in Dental Clinics (Journal of Dental Research)

More Evidence Masks Don’t Work to Prevent COVID-19 (Mask Sickness)

More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms (Brownstone Institute)

N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza among Health Care Personnel a Randomized Clinical Trial (Journal of the American Medical Association)

Natural Disasters & Severe Weather: Wildfire Smoke & COVID-19 (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)

New WHO Guidelines for Face Masks Admit No Known Medical Benefits (Health Impact News)

Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings — Personal Protective & Environmental Measures (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Non-Pharmaceutical Public Health Interventions for Pandemic Influenza: An Evaluation of the Evidence Base (BioMed Central)

Not Safe, Not Effective — 376 Ways that Face Masks Are Known to Harm the Wearer (Allan Stevo)

Oh Those Masks? They’ve Been Poisoning You Too (Coronanews123)

Optical Microscopic Study of Surface Morphology & Filtering Efficiency of Face Masks (PeerJ)

OSHA Frequently Asked Questions (Occupational Health & Safety Administration)

Philippine Reef Covered with Used Face Masks (Daily Sceptic)

Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses (Cochrane Library)

Physiological & Psychological Effects of Wearing Facemask & Their Potential Health Consequences (Unknown)

Please Remove Your Mask! (Mask Anxiety)

Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask Induced Deoxygenation During Major Surgery (Neurocirugia)

Protective Facemask Impact on Human Thermoregulation: An Overview (Annals of Occupational Hygiene)

Rapid Expert Consultation on the Effectiveness of Fabric Masks for the COVID-19 Pandemic (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine)

Respiratory Consequences of N95-Type Mask Usage in Pregnant Healthcare Workers — A Controlled Clinical Study (Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control)

Respiratory Performance Offered by N95 Respirators & Surgical Masks (British Occupational Hygiene Society)

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Among Marine Recruits During Quarantine (New England Journal of Medicine)

School Nurse Is Suspended after Branding Masks Child Abuse & Refusing to Wear One at Work (Daily Mail)

Scientists Find Evidence of Toxic Chemicals in Some Face Masks (Daily Mail)

Second Study This Time from CDC Website Confirms Study on Face Masks Being Harmful, Cause Serious Side Effects (The Gateway Pundit)

Simple Respiratory Protection — Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks & Common Fabric Materials (Annals of Occupational Hygiene)

Still No Conclusive Evidence Justifying Mandatory Masks (RC Reader)

Stop Children Wearing Masks: Legal Challenge as Masks “Cause Mental & Physical Harm” (Express UK)

Study Shows How Masks Are Harming Children (LifeSite)

Surgeon Destroys Myth: “If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?” (CNS News)

Surgical Face Masks in Modern Operating Rooms — A Costly & Unnecessary Ritual? (Journal of Hospital Infection)

Surgical Mask to Prevent Influenza Transmission in Households: A Cluster Randomized Trial (Plos One)

That Mask Is Giving You Lung Cancer (Global Research)

The Case Against Masks 10 Reasons Why Mask Use Should Be Limited (Dr. Judy Mikovit & Kent Heckenlively)

The Case Against Masks for Children (Wall Street Journal)

The CDC Is About to Be Canceled (Investment Watch Blog)

The CDC’s Mask Mandate Study: Debunked (American Institute for Economic Research)

The Efficacy of Medical Masks & Respirators Against Respiratory Infection in Healthcare Worker (Wiley Online Library)

The Evolution of the Surgical Mask: Filtering Efficiency Versus Efficiency (Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology)

The Illogical & Injustice of Mask Shaming (Spectator)

The Potential for Cloth Masks to Protect Health Care Clinicians from SARS-CoV-2: A Rapid Review (Annals of Family Medicine)

The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain (New York Magazine)

The Science of Masks (Children’s Health Defense Fund)

The States without Mask Mandates Have Lower COVID Rates (Lid Blog)

The Strangely Unscientific Masking of America (American Institute for Economic Research)

The Use of Masks & Respirators to Prevent Transmission of Influenza: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Evidence (Influenza Journal)

These 12 Graphs Show Mask Mandates Do Nothing to Stop COVID (The Federalist)

Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 Clusters in Catalonia, Spain: A Cohort Study (Lancet Infectious Diseases)

Truth About Masks (The COVID Blog)

UK Government Advisor Admits that Masks Are Just Comfort Blankets that Do Virtually Nothing (Zero Hedge)

Universal Masking in Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era (New England Journal of Medicine)

University of Florida Lab Finds Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks (C-Vine)

Unmasking the Facts — The Now Word (Mark Mallett)

Unmasking the Surgeons: The Evidence Base Behind the Use of Facemasks in Surgery (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)

Unreported Truths About COVID-19 & Lockdowns: Part 3 – Masks (Alex Berenson)

Use of Surgical Face Masks to Reduce the Incidence of the Common Cold Among Health Care Workers in Japan (American Journal of Infection Control)

Using Face Masks in the Community: First Update (European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control)

Various Face Mask Studies Prove Their Ineffectiveness (Life Site News)

What Is the Evidence for Cloth Masks? (British Medical Journal)

What Is the Science Behind Your Mask Mandate? (No Maskers)

What Isn’t Being Said — The Science Is In (Journey Guy)

What to Do If You Can’t Wear a Mask (The Mighty)

Whatever Happened to the Right to Breathe Freely? (The Blaze)

WHO: You Do NOT Need to Wear a Mask (Principia Scientific)

Why Face Masks Can Trigger Unpleasant Emotions (Psychology Today)

Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review of Their Inadequacies (Oral Health)

Why Masks Are a Charade (Mask Sickness)

Why Masks Don’t Work Against COVID-19 (Citizens for Free Speech)

You Asked, We Answered (Pandemics Data & Analytics)

Your Health, Your Responsibility (YouTube)

Your Mask May Be Causing Candida Growth in Your Mouth (Everyday Health)

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