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VERIFY: Yes, the White House has delivered free food boxes to millions during the pandemic

The USDA spent a total of $4 billion on the Farmers to Families Food Box Program which partners farmers with distributors and food banks. Here's a look.

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Top scientific journals reject 'controversial' Danish study on effectiveness of face masks against coronavirus: Report

...The study’s abstract states that it “will be a two-arm, unblinded, randomised controlled trial” that “will include adults (>18 years of age) without prior confirmed COVID-19 or symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, who spend more than three hours per day outside the home with exposure to other people. “

Six thousand participants were randomly assigned to use face masks or not for a 30-day period during the pandemic. The results would be based on the difference in the number of individuals infected with the virus within the two study groups.

"This is the world's largest study of its kind and is expected to be included as an important factor in the basis for government decisions regarding the use of masks," Bundgaard said.

Studies getting rejected by top medical journals isn't entirely out of the ordinary, especially if the data set is deficient. As Berlingske pointed out, the study was conducted at a time when COVID-19 infections were falling sharply in Denmark. If there were too few infections in the study, unambiguous conclusions would be difficult or impossible to draw.

As of Oct. 21, that study has yet to be published, and one of the researchers on the study, Thomas Lars Benfield, recently said that the findings would be released “as soon as a journal is brave enough,” suggesting that the results would cause controversy.

Benfield has since walked back those comments, saying, "The quote [is] a bit out of context. The article is being reviewed by a respected journal. We have decided not to publish data until the article has been accepted."
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