Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Effects Of Mask Mandates
In an article in the March issue, 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.
They determine mask mandates are associated with
reduced case incidence six weeks following the onset of the mandate.
“On average, the daily case incidence per 100,000 people in masked counties compared with unmasked counties declined by 23 percent at four weeks, 33 percent at six weeks, and 16 percent across six weeks post intervention,” they report.
Felicia Marie Knaul and coauthors investigate the policy response to COVID-19 in Latin America. They find wide variation in nonpharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19, both across and within countries.
Their results point to the role of subnational policies and governments in responding to health crises.
Welcome to While We Wait, the second series from Health Affairs Pathways. In this series, Sania Ali and Avni Kulkarni explore the mental health boarding crisis.
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