If every American started wearing a face mask today, this is how many lives could be saved
As people get used to living with coronavirus, social distancing and mask protocols are also easing. As of Monday evening, COVID-19 infections are closing in on 20 million people globally, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. It has now infected 5,075,678 people in the U.S., killed 163,282 in the U.S., and led to 732,889 deaths worldwide.
The number of coronavirus cases is still rising in every region of the country. With 10,382 deaths, California is now the third U.S. state to register over 10,000 deaths after New York (32,781 deaths) and New Jersey (15,878 deaths). Texas has the fourth highest number of fatalities (9,177).
America’s COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. could reach nearly 300,000 by Dec. 1, but consistent mask-wearing beginning today could save approximately 70,000 lives, according to new projections based on current fatality and infection rates from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (HME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine.
“It appears that people are wearing masks and socially distancing more frequently as infections increase, then after a while as infections drop, people let their guard down and stop taking these measures to protect themselves and others which, of course, leads to more infections,” HME director Christopher Murray said, “and the potentially deadly cycle starts over again.”
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