Recently, researchers Wei Lyu and George Wehby from the University of Iowa College of Public Health published a paper in the Journal of Health Affairs examining the effects of mask mandates. They looked at states which required masks in public and estimated that as many as 230,000–450,000 COVID-19 cases were possibly averted by mandating face coverings.
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Face mask mandates prove effective but politically controversial
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