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More Than 100,000 U.S. Lives Could Be Saved by February if Universal Mask Use Is Achieved, Study Shows – Newsweek

Released by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the study found that universal mask use, or 95 percent mask use in…

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Over 100,000 American lives could be saved by February if universal mask use is achieved, according to a new study.
Released by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and published in Nature Medicine, the study found that universal mask use—or 95 percent mask use in public—could save an additional 129,574 American lives who are at risk amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
According to the study, researchers evaluated COVID-19 case and mortality data from…

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