{"id":8049,"date":"2020-07-08T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:46:05","slug":"could-masks-curtail-the-post-lockdown-resurgence-of-covid-19-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/could-masks-curtail-the-post-lockdown-resurgence-of-covid-19-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Masks Curtail the Post-Lockdown Resurgence of COVID-19 in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[Preprint, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Ngonghala\u00a0et al. assessed if the universal use of face masks could halt a post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 cases for the entire U.S., as well as within the states of Arizona, Florida, and New York.\u00a0Assuming that\u00a0face masks reduce the probability of transmission by 50%, the authors found that 75% compliance with universal masking laws would prevent a second wave of infections.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ngonghala\u00a0et al. (July 7, 2020). Could Masks Curtail the Post-Lockdown Resurgence of COVID-19 in the US. Pre-print downloaded July 8 from\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.05.20146951\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.05.20146951<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Ngonghala\u00a0et al. assessed if the universal use of face masks could halt a post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 cases for the entire U.S., as well as within the states of Arizona, Florida, and New York.\u00a0Assuming that\u00a0face masks reduce the probability of transmission by 50%, the authors found that 75% compliance with universal masking laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/could-masks-curtail-the-post-lockdown-resurgence-of-covid-19-in-the-us\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}