Health
Leading model estimates 67,000 lives could be saved if everyone in America wore a mask – Telegraph.co.uk
Uni of Washington model says 295k covid death projection would drop to 228k
Donald Trump, the US president, long declined to wear a mask in public but has changed position in recent weeks, wearing one at public events and preaching their virtues.
He has said it is patriotic to wear a mask, urged all Americans to do so when they cannot socially distance themselves outside and pulled a mask from his pocket at times during press briefings to show he carries one.
However the projections also underscore that under a variety of scenarios the death toll in America will rise …
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