Posted on Aug 17, 2021
Even Moderate COVID Restrictions Can Slow The Spread Of The Virus — If They're Timely
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/17/ [login to see] /covid-mask-mandate-school-gyms-bars-grocery-slow-spread-coronavirus
Tensions are high right now. As the delta variant spreads like wildfire across the U.S., vaccination rates are still low in many places and parents and school staff are anxiously wondering what will happen as schools start up again. Should there be more mask mandates? Will businesses have to close again? Will big gatherings be banned?
There are no clear, simple answers to these difficult questions — in some places officials and employers in the same locale are making different decisions. But for those looking to the scientific evidence for guidance, here are some things a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have learned since the pandemic began that can help. The overall message from their analysis of state-by-state U.S. data is this: Even moderate restrictions on the size of gatherings, and some level of mask requirements can help help slow a surge of COVID-19 cases, if implemented at the right time.
Tensions are high right now. As the delta variant spreads like wildfire across the U.S., vaccination rates are still low in many places and parents and school staff are anxiously wondering what will happen as schools start up again. Should there be more mask mandates? Will businesses have to close again? Will big gatherings be banned?
There are no clear, simple answers to these difficult questions — in some places officials and employers in the same locale are making different decisions. But for those looking to the scientific evidence for guidance, here are some things a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have learned since the pandemic began that can help. The overall message from their analysis of state-by-state U.S. data is this: Even moderate restrictions on the size of gatherings, and some level of mask requirements can help help slow a surge of COVID-19 cases, if implemented at the right time.
Even Moderate COVID Restrictions Can Slow The Spread Of The Virus — If They're Timely
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I think it is ridiculous that we have a million people in six months entering our southern border all unvaccinated a with 60,000 Covid positive . Then we have people putting mandates in place they don’t follow. Then we have encouragement for mask wearing and the elites don’t follow it. If this is such a serious problem close the southern border and act like it is a serious problem . Of course we are told immigrants are not contributing to our cases yet a Doctor in Texas says most of the patients at her hospital with Covid are immigrants. If you look at Mexico you see that they are suffering from a crises so how could people coming from or thru Mexico nt effect the US? https://google.com/covid19-map/?hl=en-US&mid=/m/0b90_r
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I think it asinine that some governors are banning mask mandates across the board. What can a local area do to stop or slow the spread. Three teachers died in Broward county in a single day, yet the Governor threatened school leadership if they mandated masks in schools. Any regional authority should be able to mandate masks if it is in the best interest of that locale.
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