{"id":8547,"date":"2020-07-29T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:56:23","slug":"prevalence-of-mask-wearing-in-northern-vermont-in-response-to-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/prevalence-of-mask-wearing-in-northern-vermont-in-response-to-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of Mask Wearing in Northern Vermont in Response to SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During a 2-week period of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">business re<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">open<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in mid-May following an extended statewide lockdown<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Chittenden County, Vermont<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, observed face mask use at eight different business types was 76% overall, with higher mask use among females compared to males (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4% vs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8%). Older people (&gt;60 years old) were most likely to wear a mask (91%) and children (\u226414 years old) were the least likely (53%).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This survey reported by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beckage et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">monitored the entrances to eight different business types from a distance and visually assessed a cohort of 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">004 individuals<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0are recorded face mask use and estimated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0age<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and apparent<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0gender.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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\">Beckage et al. (July 25, 2020). Prevalence of Mask Wearing in Northern Vermont in Response to SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded July 27 from<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.23.20158980\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.23.20158980<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0During a 2-week period of\u00a0business re&#8211;opening\u00a0in mid-May following an extended statewide lockdown\u00a0in Chittenden County, Vermont, observed face mask use at eight different business types was 76% overall, with higher mask use among females compared to males (84% vs.\u00a068%). Older people (&gt;60 years old) were most likely to wear a mask (91%) and children&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/prevalence-of-mask-wearing-in-northern-vermont-in-response-to-sars-cov-2\/\">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-8547","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\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8548,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}