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Masks in Child Care Reduced Center Closures

January 27, 2022

Walter Gilliam – an Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund grantee – led a large-scale longitudinal study that found childcare programs in the US that practiced masking early in the COVID-19 pandemic saw significant reductions in program closures.