[CED/CD/EAT] Masks work

Wed Dec 2 15:57:27 MST 2020

Please note:

The Executive Order (EO, not to be confused with Ethan Orr) issued by the Kansas Governor in July specifically addressed indoor situations and outdoor cases only where adequate social distancing was not possible.

She just made a second EO along these lines on 18 November.

From: Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto)
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:36 PM
To: EAT <eat at cals.arizona.edu>; ced at list.cals.arizona.edu
Subject: An interesting article regarding a study in Kansas on the use of masks against C19

A study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, epidemiologists evaluated the rates of COVID-19 infection in Kansas counties that had mask mandates<https://click.email.aamc.org/?qs=d43165478fd757eeb66f0483a44ac69ee9736aed01245f204dfbf07e0d26596986fe03da0f9225b14808e7a922ca17d91d3755fef88a54f1> in comparison to counties that did not. In the span of June 1 to Aug. 23, 2020, the 24 counties with mask mandates saw a 6% decrease in case rate per 100,000 people, while the 81 counties with no mask mandates had a 100% increase.

Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
Director of Extension and Economic Development
Division of Agriculture, Life, & Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension
Forbes 301
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona          85721-0036
520-621-7205

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