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In an ahead-of-print article released this week, Jing Huang and coauthors match and compare cohorts from 394 counties in the United States to estimate the association between county-level public masking mandates and the daily COVID-19 case incidence.

The authors determine that mask mandates were associated with reduced case incidence six weeks following the onset of the mandate.

Their findings indicate that on average, the daily case incidence per 100,000 people in masked counties compared with unmasked counties declined by 23 percent at four weeks.

The effect was strongest among urban counties, where reductions in COVID-19 incidence reached 27 percent.

An additional ahead-of-print article released this week, Katie Keith gives an update on happenings around the Affordable Care Act.

In this Eye on Health Reform article, Keith reports that consumers continue to enroll in marketplace coverage at record-breaking numbers and highlights the Biden administration’s notice of benefit and payment parameters rule and other guidance for the 2023 plan year.

In a new podcast episode of This Week, Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack interviews Galileo founder and CEO Thomas Lee about the state of telemedicine.

In Health Affairs Forefront, Katie Keith outlines the latest lawsuit developments for the No Surprises Act while other authors write about antitrust enforcement of hospital mergers and disability documentation in EHRs.

Health Affairs’ Jane Hiebert-White, Don Metz, and Rob Lott celebrate the career of Lee-Lee Prina, the dedicated editor behind Health Affairs’ regular GrantWatch section, who will retire at the end of the month.

Patti Sweet, Health Affairs' director of digital strategy, discusses how search engine algorithms reinforce racism and create virtual obstacles that prevent conversations about inequity.

Tech publication The Verge interviewed Sweet about her article.

Additionally, Health Affairs is launching a new blog series, Medicare and Medicaid Integration, featuring policy analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the state and federal levels to advance integrated care for those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis and considered for publication through August 2022.

As part of our kickoff for our February theme issue on Racism & Health, we livestreamed an event with Georgetown University’s Christopher King to discuss how structural racism and historical events affect and potentially disenfranchise Black residents in Washington, DC.

Following this event, Health Affairs also hosted a virtual symposium with panels of distinguished authors to discuss the historical context, evolving research practices and policies, and the lived experience of populations whose health has been harmed by individual and structural racism.

Video for both events are now available for viewing.

For more events like this, join us on February 22 for the next Health Affairs Journal Club, to discuss new research about the potentially stigmatizing language in the electronic health records of patients.

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