{"id":1529,"date":"2020-10-13T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:05:08","slug":"the-impact-of-mask-wearing-and-shelter-in-place-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/13\/the-impact-of-mask-wearing-and-shelter-in-place-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Mask-Wearing and Shelter-in-Place on COVID-19 Outbreaks in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Non-medical mask-wearing by 75% of the population in one modeling study reduced infections by 38%, hospitalizations by 44%, and deaths by 47% in the absence of a shelter-in-place strategy. In combination with mask-wearing, sheltering people aged 50 to 64 decreased deaths by more than 82%. The authors noted that in this model, wearing masks with only 20% efficacy in preventing transmission had a substantial impact on outbreak control. They also suggest that shelter-in-place strategies are important public health interventions amid ongoing outbreaks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Zhang et al. (Oct 2020). The Impact of Mask-Wearing and Shelter-in-Place on COVID-19 Outbreaks in the United States. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.10.002\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.10.002<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-medical mask-wearing by 75% of the population in one modeling study reduced infections by 38%, hospitalizations by 44%, and deaths by 47% in the absence of a shelter-in-place strategy. In combination with mask-wearing, sheltering people aged 50 to 64 decreased deaths by more than 82%. The authors noted that in this model, wearing masks with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/13\/the-impact-of-mask-wearing-and-shelter-in-place-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}