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Widespread Mask Usage Is Key To Fighting Delta Variant Surge, Analysis Finds

Many hundreds of lives in Oregon and Washington would be saved this year if the public again embraced masks, University of Washington projections show.
August 2, 2021
 
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Nearly 1,500 people would avoid dying of COVID-19 by November in Oregon and Washington if the majority of the population wore a mask, projections f