//Wearing masks could save more than 100,000 US lives through February, new study suggests

Wearing masks could save more than 100,000 US lives through February, new study suggests

If 95% of Americans wore masks in public, more than 100,000 lives could be saved from COVID-19 through February, a new modeling study suggests.The study — from the COVID-19 forecasting team at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation — notes that as of Sept. 21, only about 49% of U.S. residents reported that they “always” wear a mask in public.If mask-wearing