A national mask mandate would allow more of the country to safely reopen and thus, would improve the economy
“We find that face masks are associated with significantly better coronavirus outcomes,” Hatzius said . “Our baseline estimate is that a national mandate could raise the percentage of people who wear masks by 15 [percent] and cut the daily growth rate of confirmed cases by 1.0 [percent] to 0.6%. These calculations [also] imply that a face mask mandate could potentially substitute for lockdowns that would otherwise subtract nearly 5% from GDP.
Hatzius put it in slightly more human terms when he said, “If a face mask mandate meaningfully lowers coronavirus infections, it could be valuable not only from a public health perspective but also from an economic perspective because it could substitute for renewed lockdowns that would otherwise hit GDP.”
Unfortunately, a national mask mandate from the White House feels like a tall order, considering the fact that President Trump is never seen with a mask on and Vice President Pence reluctantly wore a mask to an event in Texas recently and feebly stated that “
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