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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2022

District-Level Universal Masking Policies and COVID-19 Incidence During the First 8 Weeks of School in Texas.

Amy E Hughes, Richard J Medford, Trish M Perl, Mujeeb A Basit, Kandice A Kapinos

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Article in American journal of public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Amy E HughesAmy E. Hughes is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas. Kandice A. Kapinos is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA. Trish M. Perl, Mujeeb A. Basit, and Richard J. Medford are with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Richard J MedfordAmy E. Hughes is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas. Kandice A. Kapinos is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA. Trish M. Perl, Mujeeb A. Basit, and Richard J. Medford are with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Trish M PerlAmy E. Hughes is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas. Kandice A. Kapinos is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA. Trish M. Perl, Mujeeb A. Basit, and Richard J. Medford are with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Mujeeb A BasitAmy E. Hughes is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas. Kandice A. Kapinos is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA. Trish M. Perl, Mujeeb A. Basit, and Richard J. Medford are with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Kandice A KapinosAmy E. Hughes is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas. Kandice A. Kapinos is with the Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA. Trish M. Perl, Mujeeb A. Basit, and Richard J. Medford are with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Texas discontinued state-sponsored business restrictions and mask mandates on March 10, 2021, and mandated that no government officials, including public school officials, may implement mask requirements even in areas where COVID-19 hospitalizations comprised more than 15% of hospitalizations. Nonetheless, some public school districts began the 2021-2022 school year with mask mandates in place. We used quasi-experimental methods to analyze the impact of school mask mandates, which appear to have resulted in approximately 40 fewer student cases per week in the first eight weeks of school. (

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COVID-19HumansIncidencePolicySchoolsTexas

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PMID35500198
PMCPMC9137026

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