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Associate Prof. Atanas Mangarov
“These are scientific facts and it is absurd to censor them in this way,” insisted the infectious diseases specialist.
Facebook has removed a post on Associate Professor Atanas Mangarov’s profile about wearing protective masks, reports tribune.bg.
The infectious disease specialist’s post was described as fake news on a social network. The head of the department and head of the pediatric clinic of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases Atanas Mangarov wrote on his profile on the social network that the masks do not protect against the coronavirus.
He cited data from the CDC – American Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, according to which more than 70% of COVID-19 cases occur in people who wear masks, and only 3.9% do not.
The infectious diseases specialist saw the publication’s download as a censorship: “These are scientific facts and it is absurd to censor them in this way, Facebook will control our lives,” Mangarov told BNR.
“Until March 2020 and in all the previous epidemics we face each year: swine flu, bird flu, Hong Kong flu, never before, not the World Health Organization, not the American Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (CDC) Not even any of the other institutes have said that masks work. Suddenly, they got an idea and said that if people used a mask, the number of patients would be reduced by 80 percent, which is absurd. In those countries that were more closed, the highest number of new infected is currently observed ”, he added.
Associate Professor Mangarov insisted that masks are not the way to treat an airborne infection. He explained that the prevalence of COVID-19 is no different from that of all other coronaviruses, which are responsible for around 15 to 20 percent of all respiratory infections – runny nose and cough during the cold months of the year.
Therefore, the use of a mask does not contribute significantly to the non-spread of this particular virus and all respiratory viruses.
“People who feel fine and have no symptoms should continue to live normally. Those with mild symptoms should stay home. Real patients can be hospitalized. Now, anyone who tests positive runs to the hospital because it is constantly said that the sooner they get there the hospital, the better their chances of survival. However, this leads to overcrowding of hospitals and doctors and nurses are starting to get sicker and sicker, “said Associate Professor Mangarov.
However, Facebook posts appeared over the weekend that showed the associate professor was taking the numbers out of context.
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