Nearly 1 trillion masks bought during pandemic despite new ones

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According to recently collected data, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world purchased 928 billion face masks at a cost of $389 billion.

With a world population of 8 billion, this means that between 2020 and 2022 about 116 masks will have been purchased for every living person. The news of the massive investment comes amid new research indicating that face masks may not have been effective in fighting COVID.

Statista, an online platform specializing in market and consumer data, estimated that global sales of face masks, including surgical masks and respirators (such as the N95) and cloth masks, rose from 12.5 billion in 2019, when their use was mostly limited to medical personnel to 378.9 billion in 2020, when the pandemic started.

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“For 2022, Statista analysts see unit revenue and sales at a fraction of 2020/2021 levels as many countries have dropped mask mandates and many people have returned to their pre-pandemic habits,” the analysis states. “For years to come, Statista expects the number of people wearing face masks to continue to decline and their use to be largely restricted to members of the medical community and the clinically vulnerable. Unless a new dangerous variant emerges or a new epidemic.” /pandemic occurs.”

Statista’s analysis came weeks before a new study found that much of the spending on masks had been for nothing. Published by the prestigious Cochrane Library, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the review delved into the findings of 78 randomized controlled trials to determine whether “physical interventions” — including face masks and hand washing — reduced the spread of respiratory viruses.

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