Impact Of Mask Mandate

The city's mandate went into effect July 8th followed by the statewide mandate July 25th.

We are just past the two month mark of being required to wear masks in rochester.

The city's mandate went into effect july 8th ?

"* followed by the statewide mandate july 25th.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson is looking into the impact of the rochester mandate on county covid?

"* 19 cases she joins us live.

Annalise?

Katie ?

"* this graph shows the upward trend of covid?

"* 19 cases.

As you can see ?

"* about two weeks after rochester implemented a mask mandate ?

"* after the red line ?

"* the cass began a new downward trend.

This graph was created by council member michael wojcik ?

"* whose background is in electrical engineering and finance.

He started tracking local data about four months ago ?

"* and was curious what happened to case numbers after city council passed a mask mandate.

He believes this is some live in rochester?

"* annalise thanks annalise.

Minnesota is one of more than 30 states requiring masks indoors.

Now that we know how mask