{"id":1710,"date":"2020-11-04T15:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:47:33","slug":"nih-director-says-wearing-a-mask-could-save-130000-lives-by-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"NIH director says wearing a mask could save 130,000+ lives by March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Americans are accustomed to hearing COVID-19 news from Dr. Anthony Fauci, but now his boss is speaking out, declaring that wearing a mask could save over 130,000 lives in the next four months.\u00a0 In a blog post on the National Institutes of Health website<\/a>, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins cites a recent study, published in Nature Medicine<\/a><\/em>, that finds only about half of Americans always wear a mask in public.\u00a0 If this trend continues, coupled with inconsistent social distancing, \u201cCOVID-19 deaths in the United States could soar to more than 1 million by the end of February,\u201d Collins writes. \u00a0However, he continues, \u201cif most Americans pulled together to do the right thing and wore a mask in public, this simple, selfless act would save more than 130,000 lives in the next few months alone. If mask-wearers increased to just 85 percent, the model predicts it would save about 96,000 lives across the country.\u201d\u00a0 Collins urges Americans to think of face coverings \u201cin the same way you think about putting on your seat belt — a minor inconvenience that can save lives.\u201d

The latest forecast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> estimates that from 243,000 to 256,000 COVID-19 deaths will be reported by the week ending November 21.\u00a0 As of Wednesday morning, the U.S. had at least 232,638 reported COVID-19 deaths, more than any other country and representing just over 19% of global deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans are accustomed to hearing COVID-19 news from Dr. Anthony Fauci, but now his boss is speaking out, declaring that wearing a mask could save over 130,000 lives in the next four months.\u00a0 In a blog post on the National Institutes of Health website, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins cites a recent study, published in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blank-1000-x-50014.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}