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Missouri buries its own health study after it shows mask mandates saved lives
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 76389741" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://news.stlpublicradio.org/coronavirus/2021-12-01/missouri-health-department-found-mask-mandates-work-but-didnt-make-findings-public" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p></p><p>Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the <a href="https://missouriindependent.com/2021/07/09/missouri-health-officials-see-weeks-of-rising-covid-cases-due-to-delta-variant/" target="_blank">worst part of the delta variant wave</a>, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows.</p><p></p><p>But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the <a href="https://documentingcovid19.io/" target="_blank">Documenting COVID-19 project</a> after a Sunshine Law request to the department.</p><p></p><p>The study compared infection and death rates in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County with the rest of the state. New state health Director Donald Kauerauf wrote in an email that the study’s findings showed the effectiveness of mask mandates and forwarded it to Parson’s office.</p><p></p><p>Parson has <a href="https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1419677128803504135" target="_blank">spoken out repeatedly</a> against local mask mandates, calling them "WRONG" in a tweet and a contributor to the erosion of public trust. Attorney General Eric Schmitt has gone a step further, suing St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County to block enforcement of their mask mandates.</p><p></p><p>Along with lower case rates, the health department analysis showed masked jurisdictions had fewer deaths per capita as well, an average of 0.2 deaths per 100,000 residents each day from May 1 to Oct. 30, compared to 0.28 deaths per day per 100,000 residents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 76389741, member: 294566"] [URL='https://news.stlpublicradio.org/coronavirus/2021-12-01/missouri-health-department-found-mask-mandates-work-but-didnt-make-findings-public']LINK[/URL] Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the [URL='https://missouriindependent.com/2021/07/09/missouri-health-officials-see-weeks-of-rising-covid-cases-due-to-delta-variant/']worst part of the delta variant wave[/URL], an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the [URL='https://documentingcovid19.io/']Documenting COVID-19 project[/URL] after a Sunshine Law request to the department. The study compared infection and death rates in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County with the rest of the state. New state health Director Donald Kauerauf wrote in an email that the study’s findings showed the effectiveness of mask mandates and forwarded it to Parson’s office. Parson has [URL='https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1419677128803504135']spoken out repeatedly[/URL] against local mask mandates, calling them "WRONG" in a tweet and a contributor to the erosion of public trust. Attorney General Eric Schmitt has gone a step further, suing St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County to block enforcement of their mask mandates. Along with lower case rates, the health department analysis showed masked jurisdictions had fewer deaths per capita as well, an average of 0.2 deaths per 100,000 residents each day from May 1 to Oct. 30, compared to 0.28 deaths per day per 100,000 residents. [/QUOTE]
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