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03-06-2021, 09:59 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/study-finds-mask-mandates-dining-out-influence-virus-spread/ar-BB1ehP8R?ocid=msedgdhp
Associated Press
Study finds mask mandates, dining out influence virus spread
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer 5 hrs ago
NEW YORK (AP) A new national study adds strong evidence that mask mandates can slow the spread of the coronavirus, and that allowing dining at restaurants can increase cases and deaths.
Visitors wearing face masks walk past a sign requiring masks at a restaurant along the River Walk, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is lifting a mask mandate and lifting business capacity limits next week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)© ASSOCIATED PRESS Visitors wearing face masks walk past a sign requiring masks at a restaurant along the River Walk, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is lifting a mask mandate and lifting business capacity limits next week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study Friday.
All of this is very consistent, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House briefing on Friday. You have decreases in cases and deaths when you wear masks, and you have increases in cases and deaths when you have in-person restaurant dining.
The study was released just as some states are rescinding mask mandates and restaurant limits. Earlier this week, Texas became the biggest state to lift its mask rule, joining a movement by many governors to loosen COVID-19 restrictions despite pleas from health officials.
Its a solid piece of work that makes the case quite strongly that in-person dining is one of the more important things that needs to be handled if youre going to control the pandemic, said William Hanage, a Harvard University expert on disease dynamics who was not involved in the study.
The new research builds on smaller CDC studies, including one that found that people in 10 states who became infected in July were more likely to have dined at a restaurant and another that found mask mandates in 10 states were associated with reductions in hospitalizations.
The CDC researchers looked at U.S. counties placed under state-issued mask mandates and at counties that allowed restaurant dining both indoors and at tables outside. The study looked at data from March through December of last year.
The scientists found that mask mandates were associated with reduced coronavirus transmission, and that improvements in new cases and deaths increased as time went on.
The reductions in growth rates varied from half a percentage point to nearly 2 percentage points. That may sound small, but the large number of people involved means the impact grows with time, experts said.
Each day that growth rate is going down, the cumulative effect in terms of cases and deaths adds up to be quite substantial, said Gery Guy Jr., a CDC scientist who was the study's lead author.
Reopening restaurant dining was not followed by a significant increase in cases and deaths in the first 40 days after restrictions were lifted. But after that, there were increases of about 1 percentage point in the growth rate of cases and later 2 to 3 percentage points in the growth rate of deaths.
The delay could be because restaurants didn't re-open immediately and because many customers may have been hesitant to dine in right after restrictions were lifted, Guy said.
Also, there's always a lag between when people are infected and when they become ill, and longer to when they end up in the hospital and die. In the case of dining out, a delay in deaths can also be caused by the fact that the diners themselves may not die, but they could get infected and then spread it to others who get sick and die, Hanage said.
What happens in a restaurant doesn't stay in a restaurant, he said.
CDC officials stopped short of saying that on-premises dining needs to stop. But they said if restaurants do open, they should follow as many prevention measures as possible, like promoting outdoor dining, having adequate indoor ventilation, masking employees and calling on customers to wear masks whenever they aren't eating or drinking.
The study had limitations. For example, the researchers tried to make calculations that accounted for other policies, such as bans on mass gatherings or bar closures, that might influence case and death rates. But the authors acknowledged that they couldn't account for all possible influences such as school re-openings.
It's always very, very hard to thoroughly nail down the causal relationships, Hanage said. But when you take this gathered with all the other stuff we know about the virus, it supports the message of the value of mask wearing and the peril of restaurant dining, he added.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
lol, "CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says" -obviously a most impartial unbiased authority=-- :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Good god, this bloviation clearly exhibits a predetermined outcome , one that was gathered by setting predetermined parameters using imaginary numbers, suppositions, lies and exaggerations.
There is not a single one hundred percent proven case of -exactly where and exactly when a person contracted Covid..
Not a single one.
There are cases where multiple people came down with it and they all were at one location previously..
Which makes that seem to be likely the place-but not absolutely proven it is -unless it was a hundred people and a hundred people got infected after that event. As if 300 hundred people gathered there and 40 came down with Covid- then perhaps the 40 all had it already when they attended the event. And it was nether that event or that gathering that was the culprit.
Yet these Covid 19 scare-mongers leave that out, as it defeats their preplanned agenda and conclusions.
Sad that the moment --anybody questions this scam-this engineered political exaggeration of the enormity of this real disease, the exaggeration of its fatality rate and the infantile and political agenda driven actions taken in regards to the supposed emergency battling of it --that person is declared by these scare-mongers, these dems, these liberals, these globalists, these power-mad ffing scum to be an idiot, a fool, a liar, a hate-filled and dangerous threat to the population at large(the herd)....
ff them , I stand to present truth over that of fear induced stupidity and terror. Over that of giving up my freedoms in order to seek to feel safer about a threat that has deliberately been made out to be a thousand times more disastrous than it really is.
The "true" fatality rate of Covid-19 is math and it does not lie- it does not warrant the destruction of our culture, our freedoms that the government is now engaged in.
Some of us refuse to be blind, refuse to be sheeple, refuse to walk in a government engineered fear.
Refuse to give up our freedoms over a damn lie and the dem/liberal/socialist/globalist agenda that our government is sworn to and engaged in.-Tyr
Associated Press
Study finds mask mandates, dining out influence virus spread
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer 5 hrs ago
NEW YORK (AP) A new national study adds strong evidence that mask mandates can slow the spread of the coronavirus, and that allowing dining at restaurants can increase cases and deaths.
Visitors wearing face masks walk past a sign requiring masks at a restaurant along the River Walk, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is lifting a mask mandate and lifting business capacity limits next week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)© ASSOCIATED PRESS Visitors wearing face masks walk past a sign requiring masks at a restaurant along the River Walk, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is lifting a mask mandate and lifting business capacity limits next week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study Friday.
All of this is very consistent, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House briefing on Friday. You have decreases in cases and deaths when you wear masks, and you have increases in cases and deaths when you have in-person restaurant dining.
The study was released just as some states are rescinding mask mandates and restaurant limits. Earlier this week, Texas became the biggest state to lift its mask rule, joining a movement by many governors to loosen COVID-19 restrictions despite pleas from health officials.
Its a solid piece of work that makes the case quite strongly that in-person dining is one of the more important things that needs to be handled if youre going to control the pandemic, said William Hanage, a Harvard University expert on disease dynamics who was not involved in the study.
The new research builds on smaller CDC studies, including one that found that people in 10 states who became infected in July were more likely to have dined at a restaurant and another that found mask mandates in 10 states were associated with reductions in hospitalizations.
The CDC researchers looked at U.S. counties placed under state-issued mask mandates and at counties that allowed restaurant dining both indoors and at tables outside. The study looked at data from March through December of last year.
The scientists found that mask mandates were associated with reduced coronavirus transmission, and that improvements in new cases and deaths increased as time went on.
The reductions in growth rates varied from half a percentage point to nearly 2 percentage points. That may sound small, but the large number of people involved means the impact grows with time, experts said.
Each day that growth rate is going down, the cumulative effect in terms of cases and deaths adds up to be quite substantial, said Gery Guy Jr., a CDC scientist who was the study's lead author.
Reopening restaurant dining was not followed by a significant increase in cases and deaths in the first 40 days after restrictions were lifted. But after that, there were increases of about 1 percentage point in the growth rate of cases and later 2 to 3 percentage points in the growth rate of deaths.
The delay could be because restaurants didn't re-open immediately and because many customers may have been hesitant to dine in right after restrictions were lifted, Guy said.
Also, there's always a lag between when people are infected and when they become ill, and longer to when they end up in the hospital and die. In the case of dining out, a delay in deaths can also be caused by the fact that the diners themselves may not die, but they could get infected and then spread it to others who get sick and die, Hanage said.
What happens in a restaurant doesn't stay in a restaurant, he said.
CDC officials stopped short of saying that on-premises dining needs to stop. But they said if restaurants do open, they should follow as many prevention measures as possible, like promoting outdoor dining, having adequate indoor ventilation, masking employees and calling on customers to wear masks whenever they aren't eating or drinking.
The study had limitations. For example, the researchers tried to make calculations that accounted for other policies, such as bans on mass gatherings or bar closures, that might influence case and death rates. But the authors acknowledged that they couldn't account for all possible influences such as school re-openings.
It's always very, very hard to thoroughly nail down the causal relationships, Hanage said. But when you take this gathered with all the other stuff we know about the virus, it supports the message of the value of mask wearing and the peril of restaurant dining, he added.
___
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
lol, "CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says" -obviously a most impartial unbiased authority=-- :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Good god, this bloviation clearly exhibits a predetermined outcome , one that was gathered by setting predetermined parameters using imaginary numbers, suppositions, lies and exaggerations.
There is not a single one hundred percent proven case of -exactly where and exactly when a person contracted Covid..
Not a single one.
There are cases where multiple people came down with it and they all were at one location previously..
Which makes that seem to be likely the place-but not absolutely proven it is -unless it was a hundred people and a hundred people got infected after that event. As if 300 hundred people gathered there and 40 came down with Covid- then perhaps the 40 all had it already when they attended the event. And it was nether that event or that gathering that was the culprit.
Yet these Covid 19 scare-mongers leave that out, as it defeats their preplanned agenda and conclusions.
Sad that the moment --anybody questions this scam-this engineered political exaggeration of the enormity of this real disease, the exaggeration of its fatality rate and the infantile and political agenda driven actions taken in regards to the supposed emergency battling of it --that person is declared by these scare-mongers, these dems, these liberals, these globalists, these power-mad ffing scum to be an idiot, a fool, a liar, a hate-filled and dangerous threat to the population at large(the herd)....
ff them , I stand to present truth over that of fear induced stupidity and terror. Over that of giving up my freedoms in order to seek to feel safer about a threat that has deliberately been made out to be a thousand times more disastrous than it really is.
The "true" fatality rate of Covid-19 is math and it does not lie- it does not warrant the destruction of our culture, our freedoms that the government is now engaged in.
Some of us refuse to be blind, refuse to be sheeple, refuse to walk in a government engineered fear.
Refuse to give up our freedoms over a damn lie and the dem/liberal/socialist/globalist agenda that our government is sworn to and engaged in.-Tyr