Mosaic Mask Up (7-2-20)

Mosaic Mask Up (7-2-20)

Compliance.

As the city council vote showed, face masks have become divisive in the covid-19 debate... kansas city's mask mandate started monday and kansas gov.

Laura kelly's mask mandate begins tomorrow.

While gov.

Parson says no statewide mandate will be issued for missouri... it leaves st.

Joseph right in the middle...but the local hospital says... they're hoping st.

Joseph will eventually decide to mask up <<st.

Joseph city leaders vote to mandate face masks and one local hospital is 100% supportive of the mandate.

"our stance here at mosaic, we do recommend that we mandate the wearing of masks in our area, in st.

Joe."

Mosaic is experiencing an uptick in hospitalizations since st.

Joseph fully reopened... medical professionals attribute increase in covid-19 cases to lack of safety guidelines being followed "all you have to do is go to pretty much any place here in st.

Joe and see very little masks being worn, so it was expected."

Doctors believe if more people wore masks...covid-19 cases would decrease"yes, we would say that we believe that masks would help decrease the rise in the number of cases in all of the communities around us, not just here."

The reason medical professionals favor masks?

They prevent the transmission of water droplets.

"we know that covid-19 is transmitted via the water droplets that come out of your nose and your mouth.

We don't believe that it is so much on the surface, as much as it is that droplet.if you sneeze and even when you talk, whether you think about it or not, droplets are going forward into the air.

The masks stop that."

Rather than shutting down the community once again, doctors say masks are the best tool to combat the virus "is it 100% perfect?

We don't know that, but again, it's an inexpensive option that stands a strong possibility of protecting you.">> doctors say for those with respiratory illnesses, they should not wear a mask that is a small amount of people...who should have already been in contact with their