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As COVID-19 surged through the U.S. last spring and summer, the country found itself facing an alarming shortage of the personal protective equipment (PPE) frontline health care workers desperately needed to battle the pandemic.
With Governor Greg Abbottâs removal of the mask mandate in early March, people are neither required nor penalizable for not wearing one in public. However, one recent research analysis made by Texas Tech researchers has shown how having a mask on can greatly reduce the chance of spreading the coronavirus to others.
On April 1, an article was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by Tech Professor Seshadri Ramkumar and his student assistant. The article mentioned two-thirds of the states in the nation have seen a reduction in the number of COVID-19 cases after three to four weeks with a mask mandate. Ramkumar, who is working in the Department of Environmental Toxicology, said this analysis was conducted in April 2020, a month after the pandemic was first announced in the U.S