The chief economist at Goldman Sachs says making it mandatory to wear masks in public places across the U.S. could avert a five-per-cent drop in the American GDP.
TORONTO -- As more and more jurisdictions order face masks to be mandatory in public places, protests are springing up against the temporary restriction these orders place on individual freedom.
Investors are already worried about what will happen to the U.S. economy because of fast-rising COVID-19 caseloads in many southern states, Hatzius said."What Goldman Sachs is trying to say to people is 'There is a cost to not getting coronavirus under control,'" Marvin Ryder, an associate professor at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.
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