Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SpokenTruth said:

Torillian said:

True, the decreased death rate is pretty interesting, I need to read into what might have caused that after this is all said and done. On the mask thing I just read a pretty heartening Gallup poll result that 86% of the country say they've worn a mask in the past week. That's pretty decent though I'd be curious how it compares to (what I'd think of as) more reasonable countries. 

I'd pay money to see a state by state breakdown of these results.  Pretty sure you can guess where they are high and where they are low and how they correlate to the recent spikes in certain states.

This is mainly about saving the economy by making masks mandatory but also talks about the effectiveness.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/making-masks-mandatory-may-save-the-economy-too-goldman-sachs-economist-says-1.5015450

Goldman Sachs' research found that states that mandated masks saw approximately 25 per cent of their population shift to always or frequently wearing them in public within the first month or so, in addition to those who were already wearing them often.

"[This] suggests that a national mask mandate could increase US face mask usage by statistically significant and economically large amounts, especially in states such as Florida and Texas that currently don’t have a comprehensive mandate and are seeing some of the worst outbreaks," Hatzius wrote.

The research also found that new COVID-19 case rates fall significantly starting about a week after a state's mask mandate comes into force, and continue to fall for at least the following month, with death rates decreasing as well.

States without mandatory mask orders accounted for half of the U.S. population but two-thirds of all new COVID-19 cases as of July 1, Hatzius said.