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      The enforcement of statewide mask wearing mandates to prevent COVID-19 in the US: an overview

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      COVID-19, face masks, statewide mandates, governor's order, enforcement

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          Face masks have become the bulwark of COVID-19 prevention in the US.  Between 10 April and 1 August, 2020, 33 state governors issued orders requiring businesses to require their customers and employees to wear face masks, and persons outdoors who could not social distance  to do the same. We documented the policies and enforcement actions for these policies in each of the states.  We used governors’ orders and journalists’ news reports as our sources. Our results show that the states used a variety of state and local (county and municipality) agencies to enforce business prevention behaviors and primarily local  law enforcement agencies to enforce outside mask-wearing behaviours. In particular, law enforcement officers demonstrated a strong preference for educating non-mask wearers, and indicated a reluctance to resort to civil penalties that were enacted in the state orders.  Businesses expressed a preference to have government agencies enforce non-mask wearing behaviours.  But there was also a widespread reluctance on the part of local law enforcement  to resort to legal remedies.

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          Press articles on statewide mask orders in 33 US states

          This bibliographical data base containts references from US press articles. The topic is governors' orders in 33 states for wearing masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The newspaper articles describe details of the orders and identify who enforces these orders and whether these enforcers had expressed reservations about their roles.
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            Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data CurationRole: Formal AnalysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project AdministrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – Original Draft PreparationRole: Writing – Review & Editing
            Role: Data CurationRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – Review & Editing
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            F1000Res
            F1000Res
            F1000Research
            F1000Research
            F1000 Research Limited (London, UK )
            2046-1402
            7 September 2020
            2020
            7 September 2020
            : 9
            : 1100
            Affiliations
            [1 ]Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T5T 2W8, Canada
            [1 ]Kansas Health Institute, Topeka, KS, USA
            [1 ]Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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            No competing interests were disclosed.

            Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.

            Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.

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            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1244-0922
            Article
            10.12688/f1000research.25907.1
            7818140
            33520192
            427a8f79-b45e-44fd-ade5-afbaa21374c3
            Copyright: © 2020 Jacobs P and Ohinmaa AP

            This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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            : 1 September 2020
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