New data on the masking efforts one (damn) state/city/co./institution at a time we've been pushing in absence of national policy.
By Aug. 1, if current policies hold, nearly 75% of US population will be under some masking mandate. 1/
And raw data website @UW and covidtracking.com
github.com/COVID19StatePo…
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Of course, a national policy is necessary. Leadership is wanting.
But we respond with the hand we are dealt and we don't do hope. None of this is ideal, obviously.
But nearly 75% of US population is not nothing. 6/6