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Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US: Study examines impact on COVID-19 growth rates associated with state government mandates requiring face mask use in public.
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State policies mandating public or community use of face masks or covers in mitigating the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are hotly contested. This study provides evidence from a natural experiment on the effects of state government mandates for face mask use in public issued by fifteen states plus Washington, D.C., between April 8 and May 15, 2020. The research design is an event study examining changes in the daily county-level COVID-19 growth rates between March 31 and May 22, 2020. Mandating face mask use in public is associated with a decline in the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 0.9, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 percentage points in 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, and 21 or more days after state face mask orders were signed, respectively. Estimates suggest that as a result of the implementation of these mandates, more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases were averted by May 22, 2020. The findings suggest that requiring face mask use in public could help in mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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- Authors
- Lyu, W., & Wehby, G. L.
- Venue
- Health Affairs
- Publisher
- Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 2020-08-01
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1419-1425
- ISSN
- 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-5208
- OpenAlex
- W3035550116
- Cited by
- 721
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 25.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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