The Wall Street Journal had an article noting that even though Florida has had schools open all year, there hasn’t been any surge of cases in the schools or from the schools. (WSJ Article). And see this chart from Twitter, on cases in counties in Florida and whether the county had a mask requirement for schools. You can see that the unmasked counties actually tend to have the lowest case rates. As usual, you have to be careful because high case rates could lead to more masking, but it seems clear that the absence of masking in schools hasn’t led to case surges in the counties where those schools are located.
✅ Subscribe via Email
About this Blog
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
Healthy Skeptic Podcast
Research
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019
Headlines
Tags
Access
ACO
Care Management
Chronic Disease
Comparative Effectiveness
Consumer Directed Health
Consumers
Devices
Disease Management
Drugs
EHRs
Elder Care
End-of-Life Care
FDA
Financings
Genomics
Government
Health Care Costs
Health Care Quality
Health Care Reform
Health Insurance
Health Insurance Exchange
HIT
HomeCare
Hospital
Hospital Readmissions
Legislation
M&A
Malpractice
Meaningful Use
Medicaid
Medical Care
Medicare
Medicare Advantage
Mobile
Pay For Performance
Pharmaceutical
Physicians
Providers
Regulation
Repealing Reform
Telehealth
Telemedicine
Wellness and Prevention
Workplace
Related Posts
Commentary
March 28, 2024
More Economic News
The Congressional Budget Office is expressing increasing alarm at the federal deficit and debt situation.
Commentary
March 27, 2024
Funniest Story of the Day
Would would have thought that hail could destroy a solar farm? Certainly not the nut-case…
Commentary
March 27, 2024
What Is Going on in the US Debt Markets?
The Treasury seems determined to rely on massive amounts of short-term debt to finance our…
My theory is since most masks worn in public to a degree will break down larger droplets to smaller vapor/aerosol particles. The longer the mask is worn the more saturated it will become which will increase the quantity of the projection. While the projection distance will be reduced, suspension time in air will increase and normal air flow of the room will move the particles farther. This would apply to the source control theory failure. Most masks offer no protection from virus for the user. There are a lot of variables in data one must consider but I have seen enough charts comparing mask mandated areas and areas with no mask mandates one needs to consider the possibility masks have the potential to increase the spread whether it is a process issue or an application issue.