Corona children studies "Co-Ki": First results of a Germany-wide registry on mouth and nose covering (mask) in children
Background: Narratives about complaints in children and adolescents caused by wearing a mask are accumulating. There is, to date, no registry for side effects of masks.
Methods: At the University of Witten/Herdecke an online registry has been set up where parents, doctors, pedagogues and others can enter their observations. On 20.10.2020, 363 doctors were asked to make entries and to make parents and teachers aware of the registry.
Results: By 26.10.2020 the registry had been used by 20,353 people. In this publication we report the results from the parents, who entered data on a total of 25,930 children. The average wearing time of the mask was 270 minutes per day. Impairments caused by wearing the mask were reported by 68% of the parents. These included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%) impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%).
Discussion: This world's first registry for recording the effects of wearing masks in children is dedicated to a new research question. Bias with respect to preferential documentation of children who are particularly severely affected or who are fundamentally critical of protective measures cannot be dismissed. The frequency of the registry’s use and the spectrum of symptoms registryed indicate the importance of the topic and call for representative surveys, randomized controlled trials with various masks and a renewed risk-benefit assessment for the vulnerable group of children: adults need to collecticely reflect the circumstances under which they would be willing to take a residual risk upon themselves in favor of enabling children to have a higher quality of life without having to wear a mask.
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Bigtree's video should be ignored, that goes for all the other ones that use the "stick a sensor in a mask and take a reading" videos. They are invariably using sensors that will not operate in the environment under a mask, and that will not operate in the varying pressure under a mask.
They didn't measure anything. The sensors they are attempting to use will not read accurately in the humidity under the mask. The sensors will also not work in the vary pressure of the mask when the person is inhaling and exhaling. They are using sensors that are not designed for that purpose and they are not familiar with the sensing technology and also not technologically literate enough to read the manual and realize they won't work for that.
Were there any mentions of how the mask causes irritation to the skin. I get this after barely an hours use of the mask to the point I want to take it off.
No one will listen! I sometimes think they like wearing masks!
I am glad to see this study. The use of masks has bothered me for two reasons: 1) Potential Cognitive Harm: Randomized, Controlled studies on slightly elevated CO2 levels of 1000 to 2500 ppm show significant decreases in cognitive functioning. The long-term implications for this are unclear. 2) Little to no Benefit: Non-medical masks have been shown to block droplets, but actually increase fine aerosol emissions. Even medical grade surgical masks are equivocal in randomized, controlled studies. The masks seem more designed to show something is being done than to actually reduce virus transmission. It seems that the health of school children is possibly being harmed to give the appearance of doing something. References: CO2: 1) News Article on This Study: Savchuk, K. "Your Brain on Carbon Dioxide: Research Finds Even Low Levels of Indoor CO2 Impair Thinking." California Magazine (2016). https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2016-welcome-there/your-brain-carbon-dioxide-research-finds-even-low 2) Satish, U., Mendell, M., et al. Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO2 Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance Environmental Health Perspectives, 120:12 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104789. 3) Allen, J.G., MacNaughton, P.et al. Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 124, No 6, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510037 Lack of Effectiveness: 4) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3349234
Table 2 Table Headings need correction, as each column has the (Total age group) heading
you should fire your safety officers, because their measuring methodology is wrong and amateuristic. If you breath out, theres a lack of oxygen in your mouth and behind the mask. When you breath in, new air is attracted due to vaccuum and mixed with the air in your mouth and behind the mask to your lungs where is comes together. In the lungs the air mixes. From the oxygen in your lungs approx 30% is used, the rest is exhaled again. p.s. fire your safety officers
They didn't do anything. They didn't get any legitimate measurements. All videos made by putting a tester designed for testing ambient conditions in a room (Bigtree) or confined spaces (the other "osha expert" dude and the firefighter) are meaningless. The sensors in the testers will not operate in conditions under a mask. They are not rated to operate with those levels of humidity present, and the changing pressure and air flow under a mask. They are all useless. The people making them are either not technically literate enough to interpret the manuals for the devices, or they are creating fake news to drive their loony conspiracy theories.
Ellen, your claim that requiring masks is destroying civilization is quite the hyperbole. Most of the inconveniences of masks pale in comparison to this horrible virus. If there’s even a small chance for protection from doing the simple thing of wearing a mask when around other people, I’ll gladly wear one. As far as your valid point about young children learning speech, deaf people who read lips, etc, clear masks are readily available
Excellent comment. I would love to share in my private network and via Librti network. Thanks.
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#collapse3-7 "Some people have mistakenly claimed that OSHA standards (e.g., the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134; the Permit-Required Confined Space standard 29 CFR 1910.146; and the Air Contaminants standard, 29 CFR 1910.1000) apply to the issue of oxygen or carbon dioxide levels resulting from the use of medical masks or cloth face coverings in work settings with normal ambient air (e.g. healthcare settings, offices, retail settings, construction). These standards do not apply to the wearing of medical masks or cloth face coverings in work settings with normal ambient air). These standards would only apply to work settings where there are known or suspected sources of chemicals (e.g., manufacturing facilities) or workers are required to enter a potentially dangerous location (e.g., a large tank or vessel)."
Thanks for speaking up!
Thank you.
Spot on sir, thank you for taking a stand against this mandated child abuse.
Posted 05 Jan, 2021
Corona children studies "Co-Ki": First results of a Germany-wide registry on mouth and nose covering (mask) in children
Posted 05 Jan, 2021
Background: Narratives about complaints in children and adolescents caused by wearing a mask are accumulating. There is, to date, no registry for side effects of masks.
Methods: At the University of Witten/Herdecke an online registry has been set up where parents, doctors, pedagogues and others can enter their observations. On 20.10.2020, 363 doctors were asked to make entries and to make parents and teachers aware of the registry.
Results: By 26.10.2020 the registry had been used by 20,353 people. In this publication we report the results from the parents, who entered data on a total of 25,930 children. The average wearing time of the mask was 270 minutes per day. Impairments caused by wearing the mask were reported by 68% of the parents. These included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%) impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%).
Discussion: This world's first registry for recording the effects of wearing masks in children is dedicated to a new research question. Bias with respect to preferential documentation of children who are particularly severely affected or who are fundamentally critical of protective measures cannot be dismissed. The frequency of the registry’s use and the spectrum of symptoms registryed indicate the importance of the topic and call for representative surveys, randomized controlled trials with various masks and a renewed risk-benefit assessment for the vulnerable group of children: adults need to collecticely reflect the circumstances under which they would be willing to take a residual risk upon themselves in favor of enabling children to have a higher quality of life without having to wear a mask.
Figure 1
Bigtree's video should be ignored, that goes for all the other ones that use the "stick a sensor in a mask and take a reading" videos. They are invariably using sensors that will not operate in the environment under a mask, and that will not operate in the varying pressure under a mask.
They didn't measure anything. The sensors they are attempting to use will not read accurately in the humidity under the mask. The sensors will also not work in the vary pressure of the mask when the person is inhaling and exhaling. They are using sensors that are not designed for that purpose and they are not familiar with the sensing technology and also not technologically literate enough to read the manual and realize they won't work for that.
Were there any mentions of how the mask causes irritation to the skin. I get this after barely an hours use of the mask to the point I want to take it off.
No one will listen! I sometimes think they like wearing masks!
I am glad to see this study. The use of masks has bothered me for two reasons: 1) Potential Cognitive Harm: Randomized, Controlled studies on slightly elevated CO2 levels of 1000 to 2500 ppm show significant decreases in cognitive functioning. The long-term implications for this are unclear. 2) Little to no Benefit: Non-medical masks have been shown to block droplets, but actually increase fine aerosol emissions. Even medical grade surgical masks are equivocal in randomized, controlled studies. The masks seem more designed to show something is being done than to actually reduce virus transmission. It seems that the health of school children is possibly being harmed to give the appearance of doing something. References: CO2: 1) News Article on This Study: Savchuk, K. "Your Brain on Carbon Dioxide: Research Finds Even Low Levels of Indoor CO2 Impair Thinking." California Magazine (2016). https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2016-welcome-there/your-brain-carbon-dioxide-research-finds-even-low 2) Satish, U., Mendell, M., et al. Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO2 Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance Environmental Health Perspectives, 120:12 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104789. 3) Allen, J.G., MacNaughton, P.et al. Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 124, No 6, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510037 Lack of Effectiveness: 4) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3349234
Table 2 Table Headings need correction, as each column has the (Total age group) heading
you should fire your safety officers, because their measuring methodology is wrong and amateuristic. If you breath out, theres a lack of oxygen in your mouth and behind the mask. When you breath in, new air is attracted due to vaccuum and mixed with the air in your mouth and behind the mask to your lungs where is comes together. In the lungs the air mixes. From the oxygen in your lungs approx 30% is used, the rest is exhaled again. p.s. fire your safety officers
They didn't do anything. They didn't get any legitimate measurements. All videos made by putting a tester designed for testing ambient conditions in a room (Bigtree) or confined spaces (the other "osha expert" dude and the firefighter) are meaningless. The sensors in the testers will not operate in conditions under a mask. They are not rated to operate with those levels of humidity present, and the changing pressure and air flow under a mask. They are all useless. The people making them are either not technically literate enough to interpret the manuals for the devices, or they are creating fake news to drive their loony conspiracy theories.
Ellen, your claim that requiring masks is destroying civilization is quite the hyperbole. Most of the inconveniences of masks pale in comparison to this horrible virus. If there’s even a small chance for protection from doing the simple thing of wearing a mask when around other people, I’ll gladly wear one. As far as your valid point about young children learning speech, deaf people who read lips, etc, clear masks are readily available
Excellent comment. I would love to share in my private network and via Librti network. Thanks.
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#collapse3-7 "Some people have mistakenly claimed that OSHA standards (e.g., the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134; the Permit-Required Confined Space standard 29 CFR 1910.146; and the Air Contaminants standard, 29 CFR 1910.1000) apply to the issue of oxygen or carbon dioxide levels resulting from the use of medical masks or cloth face coverings in work settings with normal ambient air (e.g. healthcare settings, offices, retail settings, construction). These standards do not apply to the wearing of medical masks or cloth face coverings in work settings with normal ambient air). These standards would only apply to work settings where there are known or suspected sources of chemicals (e.g., manufacturing facilities) or workers are required to enter a potentially dangerous location (e.g., a large tank or vessel)."
Thanks for speaking up!
Thank you.
Spot on sir, thank you for taking a stand against this mandated child abuse.