The Education Exchange: Mask-Wearing Mandates Are Based on “Pathetic” Lack of Data, a Johns Hopkins Doctor Warns

“This recommendation for every three-year-old in America to wear a mask with such universality and vigor is disproportional to any science to support it,” says Professor Marty Makary

Photo of Marty MakaryA professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Marty Makary, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the arguments against mandating mask use by children in schools.

Dr. Makary is co-author of a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “The Case Against Masks for Children.”

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