Study: Wearing masks cut the infection rate in half

According to the University of Kansas study, yet Twit and his Twitiots still blithely don't wear them and super spread the pandemic. And that reduction is by those who wear them; most of the other half of transmissions are caused by those who do not (my take).

"A new study by economists at the University of Kansas has found that counties in the state where residents are obliged to wear masks in public have seen about half as many new coronavirus infections as counties that do not have a mask mandate in force. The study by the university’s Institute for Policy & Social Research is part of a countrywide trend, experts said. Localities that impose mask mandates often see fewer cases, fewer hospitalizations, fewer deaths or lower test-positivity rates than nearby localities that do not. The same trend has been seen in Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, according to a report from Prevent Pandemics, a nonprofit group advocating pandemic-fighting measures."