A computer model predicts that 300,000 Americans will have died of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, by December, CNN reported. However, that number could be cut by 70,000 if more Americans wore masks.
As of today, the pandemic has claimed the lives of 160,000 people in the U.S., but the model predicts that number will effectively double in just a few months.
However, one simple, inexpensive, and effective lifestyle choice could drastically reduce that projected death toll: wearing masks.
“70,000 of those people could be saved if we would all just wear a mask every day every time we leave our front doors,” said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University.
“This virus Is not just going to disappear or vanish. The virus is with us, and we’re going to have to combat it, and the simple thing that we can all do is wear a mask. Please, everyone, wear your mask every day,” he said.
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