{"id":999241,"date":"2021-11-11T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999241"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:58:48","slug":"masked-up-states-reporting-more-coronavirus-cases-per-capita-than-maskless-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/masked-up-states-reporting-more-coronavirus-cases-per-capita-than-maskless-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked-Up States Reporting More Coronavirus Cases Per Capita than Maskless Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmasked-up-states-reporting-more-coronavirus-cases-per-capita-than-maskless-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">States with widespread mask mandates in place are reporting more cases of the Chinese coronavirus per capita than maskless states such as Florida, furthering the longtime debate over the efficacy of masks.<\/p>\n<p>Six states currently have mask mandates in place \u2014 Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington \u2014 as well as Washington, DC. Yet, all but Hawaii are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\">reporting<\/a> far higher coronavirus case numbers per capita than Florida, one of the few states that never implemented a statewide mask mandate during the pandemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Illinois is currently experiencing a significant surge, seeing a daily average of 3,112 cases, or 25 per capita. That represents a 49 percent increase in cases over the last two weeks alone, according to the<em> New York Times\u2019<\/em> coronavirus map and case count last updated Thursday. All the while, public health officials in the Prairie State are showing no signs of lifting the mask mandate \u2014 which has been in place for over two months \u2014 before the holidays.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17946914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pritzker.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17946914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pritzker.jpeg\" alt=\"Citing substantial spread of the coronavirus across the state, Illinois Governor J.B. Prtizker announces a statewide mandate requiring masks be worn in all Illinois public schools, preschool through high school, on August 04, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Masks will also be required in all long-term care facilities and vaccinations will be required for all state employees at congregate facilities. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citing substantial spread of the coronavirus across the state, Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces a statewide mandate requiring masks be worn in all Illinois public schools, preschool through high school, on August 04, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Nevada, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\/current-status-mitigation-measures\/\">requires<\/a> all counties that are \u201cexperiencing substantial or high transmission levels based on the latest CDC COVID-19 tracker\u201d to follow mask requirements, there has been a 15 percent increase in cases over the last two weeks, as the state is reporting a daily average of 742 cases, or 24 per capita.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s mask mandate was slated to end November 17, but public health officials recently suggested it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koat.com\/article\/new-mexico-indoor-mask-mandate-covid\/38215066\">could<\/a> go on longer. It is reporting a daily average of 1,270 cases, or 61 per 100,000. That represents a 46 percent increase in the last 14 days.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Washington and Oregon, the latter of which has an outdoor mask <a href=\"https:\/\/covidblog.oregon.gov\/outdoor-mask-mandate-issued-for-most-public-outdoor-settings\/\">mandate<\/a>, are reporting 24 and 22 cases per capita, respectively.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The daily average of cases for Washington is 1,798 and 937 for Oregon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii is the only state to come close to Florida, which has consistently reported the lowest coronavirus cases per capita in the United States. As of Thursday, both states were reporting seven cases per capita \u2014 the lowest of all states in the nation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The news follows months of debate over the efficacy of masks and coincides with a University of Waterloo study, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/24\/study-surgical-and-cloth-masks-filter-roughly-10-efficient-at-blocking-aerosols\/\">found<\/a> that cloth and surgical masks are roughly 10 percent efficient at blocking exhaled aerosols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States with widespread mask mandates in place are reporting more cases of the Chinese coronavirus per capita than maskless states such as Florida, furthering the longtime debate over the efficacy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}