Universal Mask Wearing Could Save Some 130,000 Lives In The U.S., Study Suggests

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Midshipmen wearing face masks stand and salute before the Navy Midshipmen play against the Houston Cougars on Saturday in Annapolis, Md. Researchers have tried to estimate how many lives would be saved by universal mask-wearing.





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Can Masks Save Us From More Lockdowns? Here’s What The Science Says

Researchers also noted that changes in policies and behavior could affect outcomes and that epidemics progress in a way that is are «difficult to observe directly and at scale.

«It is unreasonable to expect any model to do everything well, so each model makes compromises to serve a purpose, while maintaining computational tractability, researchers wrote.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than 224,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus.

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