The politicisation of masks

From Lobbyists to suppressors and onto flip-floppers

Way back in 2006, when Tom and colleagues wrote the protocol for the  Cochrane review, Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses ( A122 for short), little did he realise the review would become the centre of a political battle, and he would be personally targeted, too.

The first version of A122 was published in late …