Now that there are dozens of additional studies showing that mask mandates are useless at preventing transmission of flu viruses, has he ever recanted his statement?

(I said "additional" because the CDC, of all places, had already released a meta-study in 2018 that observed these types of viruses using data from the previous 40 years, and concluded that there was no perceivable difference between populations that imposed mask mandates and those who didn't. We'd known for decades that they were useless, long before covid ever appeared, and long before the CDC confirmed prior observations.)