Masking children to reduce the spread of Covid-19 is not backed by research or data.

It is a policy that should stop immediately.

Here is an infographic with over 70 citations since August, 2020. All citations are in the thread.
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(1) https://osf.io/ezdf2/ 
(2)">https://osf.io/ezdf2/&qu... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/coronavirus-children.html
(3)">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/1... https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/514948-restore-our-lives-using-medical-science-data-and-common-sense
(4)">https://thehill.com/opinion/h... https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53932294
(5)">https://www.bbc.com/news/heal... https://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2021/04/09/cmaj.210263
(6)">https://www.cmaj.ca/content/e... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1
(7)">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20196428v1">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...
3/12 Stop masking children
(8) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3668418
(9)">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.26394
(10)">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1... https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00209-7/fulltext
(11)">https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S... https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008559
(12)">https://journals.plos.org/ploscompb... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774102
(13)">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/... https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/10/22/JCM.02593-20
(14)">https://jcm.asm.org/content/e... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.21255616v1">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...
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(15) https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/03/05/peds.2021-050605.full.pdf
(16)">https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/p... #abstract_content">https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011 #abstract_content
(17)">https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/1... https://earlylearningnation.com/2020/08/lets-talk-about-the-encouraging-covid-experience-of-u-s-child-care-programs/
(18)">https://earlylearningnation.com/2020/08/l... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pupils-pose-no-risk-of-spreading-covid-27q6zfd9l
(19)">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/p... https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/10/16/peds.2020-031971.long
(20)">https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/e... https://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/CDP_22_20.pdf
(21)">https://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uplo... https://www.nber.org/papers/w28619 ">https://www.nber.org/papers/w2...
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(43) https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-children-and-masks-related-to-covid-19
(44)">https://www.who.int/news-room... https://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/schools-urging-parents-to-wash-kids-mask-as-many-are-coming-to-class-with-filthy-ones/91-3918588a-3df0-474f-868e-ff0cd735c4d0
(45)">https://www.thv11.com/article/n... https://wset.com/news/coronavirus/abc13-investigates-how-dirty-is-your-face-mask
(46)">https://wset.com/news/coro... https://kesq.com/news/2020/10/23/are-you-washing-your-mask-frequently-enough-health-officials-discuss-risks-of-improper-mask-care/
(47)">https://kesq.com/news/2020... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/02/the-most-common-ways-were-wearing-face-masks-incorrectly
(48)">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... #Echobox=1598084360">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/21/sweden-stands-firm-face-masks-anders-tegnell-refuses-copy-countries/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter #Echobox=1598084360
(49)">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/24/schools-told-not-punish-pupils-refuse-wear-masks/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021...
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(71) https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/8/4344
(72)">https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601... https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021/rr-6
(73)">https://www.bmj.com/content/3... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
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