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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, June 16, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural
Experiment Of State Mandates In The US

By Wei Lyu and George L. Wehby

Wei Lyu and George Wehby estimate the effect of face cover mandates on
the county-level COVID-19 growth rate by evaluating public data sets and
reviewing all state orders issued between April 1 and May 21, 2020.
According to the authors, mandating public use of face masks is
associated with a reduction in the COVID-19 daily growth rate, with the
effect increasing over time and reaching 2.0 percentage points
twenty-one days after the issuance of an order. The authors also
estimate that the face mask mandates had prevented as many as
230,000-450,000 US COVID-19 cases by May 22. Read More >>

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Supreme Court Finds LGBT People Are Protected From Employment
Discrimination: Implications For The ACA

By Katie Keith

While the Supreme Court's ruling has many important consequences, this
post focuses on implications for a recent rule on Section 1557 of the
Affordable Care Act that was issued only three days prior. Overall, the
decision calls major parts of the Office for Civil Rights' final rule
into question. Read More >>

COVID-19

Public Health Cannot Go It Alone On COVID-19

By Amy Killelea

The COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented response that leverages
all of the tools at our disposal. Public health and private insurance
must work in tandem to best target resources across health care and
public health settings. Read More >>

COSTS & SPENDING

Make Transparent Health Care Prices A Price Of Any Future Aid To The
Health Care Industry

By Brian Blase

It's time for Congress to stop focusing its efforts on supporting the
wealthy health care and health insurance industries, and it's time for
these industries to help American families and businesses and drop their
fight against health care price transparency. This starts by equipping
Americans-both families and employers-with tools to be better
purchasers of health care. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Pediatric Mortality

Although pediatric mortality rates in the US have declined since 1999,
rates among non-Hispanic black and American Indian/Alaska Native
children are still higher than those among non-Hispanic white children.
In a November 2019 Health Affairs article
, Janice
Probst and coauthors recommend combating this problem by engaging in
"ongoing surveillance of rural children's health accompanied by
policies targeting the leading causes of death in this population:
unintentional injury and suicide."

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