Evaluating System for Effectiveness of Mask Mandates and the Most Influential Factor in Each State in the U.S.A

Abstract

Over the past year, the COVID-19 outbreak deeply and thoroughly changed the way the world is, and plenty of people died because of this virus. To control the epidemic, all the state governments in the United States took the mask mandates to ask people to wear masks in public. However, many people doubt if the mask can help them prevent the spread of the virus, and there are few researches about the effectiveness of the mask mandates in each state. To tackle this issue, this paper proposed an evaluating system for the effectiveness of mask mandate in each state in the U.S.A, which can be utilized to analyze whether mask mandates can slow down the spread of the virus. And if the effectiveness of mask mandates is different in different states, this paper will continue to find out which factor can most affect the effectiveness. The experimental results demonstrated that even though the new cases in some states still increased after the mask mandates, it can be seemed that the mask mandates do control the spread of the virus in general. According to the research, the paper can find that the most influential factor to the effectiveness is the infection rate. There are also some secondary factors to the effectiveness of mask mandates. Through these researches, they can analyze the result to develop more effective mandates to control the epidemic and help governments and companies develop new products to fit the needs during the epidemic.