By Karen Guzman New grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are fueling the expansion of a Yale School of Management faculty-led initiative to promote mask-wearing and rural vaccine delivery in the developing world. The BMGF has donated $3 million to the NORM project, which last year established a successful formula for mask-wearing implementation in Bangladesh,
A recent study found that nearly 1,900 Missourians who died of COVID-19 would have survived 2020 with a statewide mask mandate. But mask requirements have become a political touchstone in Missouri and around the country, with clear partisan dividing lines.