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Mask Mandates: Lawfulness, Compliance, Utility. As of July 27, 2020, statewide orders mandating face coverings in response to COVID-19 had been issued in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Mandates vary, including directives to the general public, specific types of businesses, and to employers, employees, or both (see Table in Supplement 1).
9 lis 2022 · Our results support universal masking as an important strategy for reducing Covid-19 incidence in schools and loss of in-person school days. As such, we believe that universal masking may...
9 lis 2022 · Universal masking policies distribute a small cost across society, rather than shifting the highest burdens of Covid-19 onto populations that have already been made vulnerable by structural...
10 maj 2023 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week recommended health care facilities use a risk-based assessment, stakeholder input and local metrics to determine how and when to require universal masking to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
5 dni temu · Universal masking was implemented in May 2020 at our hospital and state-level mask mandates had been lifted by May 2021. We evaluated and compared the HA-RI rates, adjusted for monthly community-onset viral infections, during the pre-masking period, universal masking period and post-community mandate period.
31 paź 2023 · Available evidence strongly suggests that masking in the community can reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and that masking with the highest-quality masks that can be made widely available should play an important role in controlling whatever pandemic caused by a respiratory pathogen awaits us.
18 sie 2020 · Wang et al (1) seek to demonstrate that a hospital mandate for universal masking reduced COVID-19 infection rates among its staff. They report that at baseline 21% of symptomatic staff seeking SARS-CoV-2 testing were confirmed to be infected; this rate declined to 15% after staff masking was mandated, and then to 11% after patient masking was ...
