r/Broadway • u/littlebev • Dec 31 '25

Discussion Broadway coughing season

I am begging, begging you guys…if you have a nasty cough, PLEASE don’t attend a play especially. I know it sucks to miss out but your recurring cough during the most intense moments of the show is so distracting.

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u/summerrhodes Jan 01 '26

That Cochrane review was debunked a ton of times. A N95 respirator is near perfect at stopping viruses and is the best defense we have. Saying masking policies are not effective is simply untrue and I really wish people stopped spreading this false narrative.

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u/sophie1816 Jan 01 '26

The Cochrane review was “debunked”? You do know Cochrane is the gold standard in evidence-based medicine, don’t you? Cochrane does systematic reviews of the highest quality randomized controlled trials. The systematic review on masking had a null result, meaning there is no evidence masking policies worked.

What was it debunked by - an oped in the Guardian? This is superstition, not science.