1. Jul 8, 2024As part of the new law, people may wear medical masks in public to prevent the spread of illness, but officers and property owners may ask people to remove their masks to verify their identity.
  2. Jul 1, 2024In a stark reversal, some of the same U.S. jurisdictions that imposed mask mandates at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic are now proposing and even implementing bans on face coverings. Follow me ...
  3. Jun 11, 2024"As public health law experts, we have considered the scientific, legal, and ethical issues surrounding mask use, weighing the public health evidence, potential for stigma and racial profiling and policing, and the politics of mask use. We conclude that, on balance, a mask recommendation is the better solution for now." [emphasis added]
  4. jamanetwork.com

    As states lift mask mandates and align their public health guidelines with the newest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations, a number of states have opted to implement outright bans on any attempts to require masking. ... the rate of SARS-CoV-2 spread is similar to its rate of spread among the general population at ...
    Author:Mical Raz, Doron DorfmanPublished:2021
  5. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    These statewide bans on school mask mandates directly contradict evidence-based public health recommendations. 2 The results of a recent analysis indicated that increases in pediatric COVID-19 case rates during the start of the 2021-2022 school year were smaller in US counties with school mask requirements than in those without. 2 A study of ...
  6. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Even though our results, taken together, strongly suggest the positive effect of mask mandates, mask adherence and mask attitudes on COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, an important open question is the investigation of the optimal incentives and regulatory mechanisms to increase mask-adherence [22, 66-70] especially in a climate ...
  7. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    National Center for Biotechnology Information

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC9560902

    To examine whether the impact of mask mandates on COVID-19 hospitalizations varied over time, we estimated an event study model (an advanced version of a controlled interrupted time series), a methodology commonly used to analyze policy impacts over time in public health.4,9,10 For each county that was subject to a state-issued mask mandate, a ...
  8. journals.plos.org

    Mask wearing has been advocated by public health officials as a way to reduce the spread of COVID-19. In the United States, policies on mask wearing have varied from state to state over the course of the pandemic. Even as more and more states encourage or even mandate mask wearing, many citizens still resist the notion. Our research examines mask wearing policy and adherence in association ...
  9. academic.oup.com

    Feb 12, 2024Introduction. The use of masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory disease transmission is not new ().However, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the use of these tools has proven controversial and even politically polarizing ().Supporters and opponents of community masking can point to a mixed evidentiary database when it comes to the impact of masking for reducing disease risk ().

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