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NPR Coronavirus Updates

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

By Jason Slotkin

Published October 24, 2020 at 5:45 PM MDT

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The study is based on some assumptions under different scenarios. It suggests that if 95% of Americans wore masks in public it could drastically reduce the amount of COVID-19 deaths by February.

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