by Arjun Walia, The Pulse:

A paper published in Archives of Disease in Childhood found that real-world effectiveness of child mask mandates to prevent COVID-19 transmission and infection has “not been demonstrated with high-quality evidence” and that “the current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID-19.”

Researchers performed a systematic review and combed through 597 studies that were published up to February 2023. From those 597, 22 studies were included in the final analysis.