Corollary: if you don’t believe in masks, are you prepared to accept, for you and your grandma, a cot in the hospital parking lot with a nurse’s aide squeezing an airbag to help you/her breathe?
You may have pandemic and politics fatigue. I sure do. I will not blog about COVID-19 anymore. If you don’t want to wear a mask by now, there is nothing more I can say, except that our lives will not return to normal until a total of 500,000 lives are lost in our country.
Modeling study indicates universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 U.S. deaths
The New York Times (10/23, Mandavilli) reported that an analysis indicates that “universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from COVID-19…in the” U.S. The findings were published in Nature Medicine.
USA Today (10/23, Rodriguez, Weise) reported that investigators “predicted that current state strategies surrounding social distancing, phased reopenings and mask mandates could lead to 511,373 deaths by Feb. 28.” However, the researchers “also predicted nearly 130,000 lives could be saved from the end of September through the end of February if at least 95% of the population wore masks in public.” Meanwhile, “if only 85% wore masks, nearly 96,000 deaths could be prevented, they said.”
