{"id":1891,"date":"2020-10-30T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:02:03","slug":"association-of-county-wide-mask-ordinances-with-reductions-in-daily-covid-19-incident-case-growth-in-a-midwestern-region-over-12-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/association-of-county-wide-mask-ordinances-with-reductions-in-daily-covid-19-incident-case-growth-in-a-midwestern-region-over-12-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of County-Wide Mask Ordinances with Reductions in Daily CoVID-19 Incident Case Growth in a Midwestern Region Over 12 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Missouri counties with mask mandates had a daily percent COVID-19 growth rate that was 32% lower than the growth rate in counties without mask mandates, based on a population-based quasi-experimental longitudinal study conducted from June to September. In the 3 weeks before mandatory mask mandates were instated, the average daily percent increase in incident COVID-19 cases was similar across all counties (0.9% vs. 1.3%). At 12 weeks post-mask mandate, the average daily COVID-19 case growth in counties with no mandate was 2.4%, which was significantly higher than the average daily COVID case growth among counties with a mandate (1.4%). Following implementation of mask mandates, disparities in infection rate by race and population density were no longer significant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shacham et al. (Oct 30, 2020). Association of County-Wide Mask Ordinances with Reductions in Daily CoVID-19 Incident Case Growth in a Midwestern Region Over 12 Weeks. Pre-print downloaded Oct 30 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.28.20221705\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.28.20221705<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Missouri counties with mask mandates had a daily percent COVID-19 growth rate that was 32% lower than the growth rate in counties without mask mandates, based on a population-based quasi-experimental longitudinal study conducted from June to September. In the 3 weeks before mandatory mask mandates were instated, the average daily percent increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/association-of-county-wide-mask-ordinances-with-reductions-in-daily-covid-19-incident-case-growth-in-a-midwestern-region-over-12-weeks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}