{"id":6090,"date":"2020-04-16T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:57:50","slug":"impact-of-population-mask-wearing-on-covid-19-post-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/16\/impact-of-population-mask-wearing-on-covid-19-post-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of population mask wearing on Covid-19 post lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using a simplified SIR model to investigate the effects of near-universal mask use on COVID-19, the authors state that mask use had a relatively minor benefit on critical-care and mortality rates when transmissibility was high. However, when the RE approached 1 (as might be expected after aggressive social-distancing measures), the model finds a significant reduction in deaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study suggests that when home-confinement is lifted but other social measures like school closure and social isolation are still in place, wearing masks can maintain the benefits of home-confinement \u2013 both in terms of deaths and critical-care bed use.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Javid &amp; Balaban (Apr 16, 2020). Impact of population mask wearing on Covid-19 post lockdown. Pre-print downloaded Apr 16 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.13.20063529\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.13.20063529<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a simplified SIR model to investigate the effects of near-universal mask use on COVID-19, the authors state that mask use had a relatively minor benefit on critical-care and mortality rates when transmissibility was high. However, when the RE approached 1 (as might be expected after aggressive social-distancing measures), the model finds a significant reduction&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/16\/impact-of-population-mask-wearing-on-covid-19-post-lockdown\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6091,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}