A Detailed Interactive Map Of Who Is Wearing Mask In USA

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In some American neighborhoods, it’s hard to spot even one person outside without a face covering. In others, your odds of seeing many maskless people are quite high.

Public health officials believe that face coverings can substantially slow transmission of the coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly in many states. But face coverings work best if they are adopted widely, and that is not the case everywhere. The accompanying map shows the odds of whether, if you encountered five people in a given area, all of them would be wearing masks.

Our data comes from a large number of interviews conducted by the global data and survey firm Dynata at the request of The New York Times. The firm asked a question about mask use to obtain 250,000 survey responses between July 2 and July 14, enough data to provide estimates more detailed than the state level. (Several states have imposed new mask requirements since the completion of these interviews.)

The map shows broad regional patterns: Mask use is high in the Northeast and the West, and lower in the Plains and parts of the South. But it also shows many fine-grained local differences. Masks are widely worn in the District of Columbia, but there are sections of the suburbs in both Maryland and Virginia where norms seem to be different. In St. Louis and its western suburbs, mask use seems to be high. But across the Missouri River, it falls.

Mask wearing is common among Americans of both political parties, but there is a 20-point split in many surveys, with Republicans substantially less likely to say they wear masks often or always and much more likely to say they never wear a face covering.

Achieving universal adoption of public health recommendations is hard. In the United States today, not everyone wears a seatbelt when driving; not everyone wears a helmet when bicycling; not everyone uses a condom when having sex with a new partner; and not every child receives recommended vaccines.

“We can never expect 100 percent risk reduction,” said Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who has studied H.I.V. prevention. “It’s not realistic.”

Still, some countries are clearly getting closer to universal mask use than the United States, suggesting there is room for improvement.

Compliance on all those other public health measures has risen through a combination of laws and public health advocacy. The evidence for laws on masks is limited, but it seems to support their effectiveness. A study of Mexican taxi and bus drivers during the H1N1 flu outbreak in 2009 showed that stronger rules increased compliance. A recent study in Health Affairs that looked at U.S. states found that state mask requirements appeared to have reduced virus transmission, though the researchers did not measure mask use directly.

Other public health campaigns also show that mandates may work. Laws are credited with increasing the use of seatbelts and the vaccination rates among school-aged children. Laws have been shown to be among the most effective ways to decrease indoor smoking, a behavior that, like declining to use a mask, can increase health risks to people nearby.

But public health and communications researchers emphasize that persuasion matters, too. Messages that make people feel empowered and address the downsides of masks are likely to be more effective than those that emphasize guilt or shame, Dr. Marcus said.

 

Map & Full article can be seen here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/upshot/coronavirus-face-mask-map.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

You can zoom in on the map and pick your county too.

Is your area good?

My area in Bay Area is super purple since we are all well educated in here 

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Mine’s pretty good I guess but we haven’t been hit very hard at all by COVID plus we have a ton of space between each other’s houses in my neighborhood. 

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5 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

My area in Bay Area is super purple since we are all well educated in here

Are all those homeless people wearing masks? 

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2 minutes ago, ssslyboy said:

Are all those homeless people wearing masks? 

I know this is a trick question, but I hope they get them too...

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Why does it look like the middle part of the US is filled with Karens?

[StarstruckIllusion 53,580]

Wait not the map being locked behind a paywall... umm anyways. 

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Nice to see the NY/NJ area people are wearing masks more. 

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38 minutes ago, ssslyboy said:

Are all those homeless people wearing masks? 

 

Downtown, there are a lot of spots where foundations/communities handing out mask and hand sanitizers for free, and some other reaching out to these homeless directly. The rest is up to each individuals if they wanna make use of that opportunity, and if they gonna wear it. But most did wear them. Also, counties are leasing hotel rooms for lots of them to take shelter during this time.

 

 

29 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Wait not the map being locked behind a paywall... umm anyways. 

Is it? Covid news are not paywalled tho. There were only pop up suggesting to deactivate ad block if you turn it on, but you can dismissed it and still can view the page. 

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14 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

 

Downtown, there are a lot of spots where foundations/communities handing out mask and hand sanitizers for free, and some other reaching out to these homeless directly. The rest is up to each individuals if they wanna make use of that opportunity, and if they gonna wear it. But most did wear them. Also, counties are leasing hotel rooms for lots of them to take shelter during this time.

 

 

Is it? Covid news are not paywalled tho. There were only pop up suggesting to deactivate ad block if you turn it on, but you can dismissed it and still can view the page. 

Yeah I’m on my phone so no ad block there. Oh well it’s not that vital for me to see it

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this... makes sense

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Interesting thing in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. It makes sense if they don't spend much time in a crowds or public places. 

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Am I the only one who wears a mask to the park? And I go almost every day. 

I know it's not "required" in most places, but to me it just makes sense, especially since the park is a little small and can get a bit crowded sometimes. 

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I’m in a red dot area with a sea of stupidity surrounding my city on all sides.

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2 hours ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Wait not the map being locked behind a paywall... umm anyways. 

Type a period after ".com" and then you can read any NYT article for free. 

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3 hours ago, ssslyboy said:

Are all those homeless people wearing masks? 

Ooh edgy