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cord-129175-zkwxc9xy	Renne, Jean-Paul	Preventing COVID-19 Fatalities: State versus Federal Policies	2020-10-28		.txt	text/plain	12335	691	65	Our study suggests that a large number of COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if the federal government had imposed stay-at-home orders or mask mandates that followed the leads taken by the different states. Our counterfactuals suggest that between 96,000 and 183,000 virus deaths could have been prevented if the federal government had enacted a federal mask mandate sometime between March 17 and April 17, 2020, on top of the stay-at-home and travel ban policies adopted by the different states. 4 These results provide an important policy lesson for future waves of the pandemic by highlighting that early 3 By matching death counts only, we estimate that the effective reproduction numbers of the virus in the different states during the Spring of 2020 must have been up to two-times higher than prevailing estimates that are based on infection cases, which are likely under-measured due to the large number of undetected infections and asymptomatic individuals.	./cache/cord-129175-zkwxc9xy.txt	./txt/cord-129175-zkwxc9xy.txt