{"id":3723,"date":"2021-02-05T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:20:44","slug":"decline-in-covid-19-hospitalization-growth-rates-associated-with-statewide-mask-mandates-10-states-march-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/05\/decline-in-covid-19-hospitalization-growth-rates-associated-with-statewide-mask-mandates-10-states-march-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates \u2014 10 States, March\u2013October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in states with statewide mask mandates reported a decline in weekly COVID-19\u2013associated hospitalization growth rates by up to 5.5 percentage points for adults aged 18\u201364 years after mandate implementation, compared with growth rates during the 4 weeks preceding implementation of the mandate. Data were collected during March 22\u2013October 17, 2020 in 10 sites participating in the COVID-19\u2013Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network.<\/p>\n<p><i>Joo et al. (Feb 5, 2021). Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates \u2014 10 States, March\u2013October 2020. MMWR.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7006e2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7006e2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in states with statewide mask mandates reported a decline in weekly COVID-19\u2013associated hospitalization growth rates by up to 5.5 percentage points for adults aged 18\u201364 years after mandate implementation, compared with growth rates during the 4 weeks preceding implementation of the mandate. Data were collected during March 22\u2013October 17, 2020 in 10 sites participating&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/05\/decline-in-covid-19-hospitalization-growth-rates-associated-with-statewide-mask-mandates-10-states-march-october-2020\/\">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":[74],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}