The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives
The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.
Apoorva Mandavilli
88d ago
BREAKING: Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19 by next spring, and without mask use, the death toll could top 500,000, acc to new estimates. 1/x
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New estimates from @IHME_UW. “It’s not a prediction or forecast, because we can will this number out of existence,” said Shweta Bansal, an infectious disease modeler at Georgetown University.”
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives, @apoorva_nyc reports
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives: The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.
Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 of deaths from Covid-19 through next spring.
BREAKING!!!
If you assume masks work, and ignore their health, social & economic costs, then your models will conclude they save lives.
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives. The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds. nytimes.com/2020/10/23/hea… @apoorva_nyc #coronavirus #COVID19 #MasksSaveLives
Okay, CA — don’t get complacent. These are the highest numbers we’ve seen since the start of September and it’s not even a Tuesday. Please wear a mask (it helps, see today’s story from @apoorva_nyc: nytimes.com/2020/10/23/hea…), wash your hands, stay distanced. pic.twitter.com/qHtFnI3jqE
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives nytimes.com/2020/10/23/hea… #COVID19