{"id":3750,"date":"2021-02-08T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:04:23","slug":"the-impact-of-state-mask-wearing-requirements-on-the-growth-of-covid-19-cases-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/the-impact-of-state-mask-wearing-requirements-on-the-growth-of-covid-19-cases-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of State Mask-Wearing Requirements on the Growth of COVID-19 Cases in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ecological study conducted from January-October 2020 found differences in median COVID-19 case rates (per 100,000) between states who adopted mask requirements \u201cearly\u201d (before June 12, 15 states, rate = 5.7), \u201clate\u201d (after June 12, 19 states, rate = 5.59) or \u201cnever\u201d (17 states, rate = 5.99). Models that controlled for confounders and interactions between mask requirement status and period showed lower rates in early vs. never adopter states (adjusted ratio of incidence rate ratios [aIRRR]=0.15).<\/p>\n<p><i>Rebeiro et al. (Feb 7, 2021). The Impact of State Mask-Wearing Requirements on the Growth of COVID-19 Cases in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab101\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab101<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecological study conducted from January-October 2020 found differences in median COVID-19 case rates (per 100,000) between states who adopted mask requirements \u201cearly\u201d (before June 12, 15 states, rate = 5.7), \u201clate\u201d (after June 12, 19 states, rate = 5.59) or \u201cnever\u201d (17 states, rate = 5.99). Models that controlled for confounders and interactions between&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/the-impact-of-state-mask-wearing-requirements-on-the-growth-of-covid-19-cases-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":[74,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-3750","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\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}