{"id":979195,"date":"2021-03-10T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=979195"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T18:56:05","slug":"ut-tyler-dmn-survey-reveals-masks-probably-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=979195","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler, DMN survey reveals masks probably remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-979200\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/UT-Tyler-DMN-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler and Dallas Morning News have released results regarding a COVID-19 survey, and those numbers indicate masks may remain for some time. On Wednesday, UT-Tyler Political Science Professor, Dr. Mark Owens told KTBB news, &#8220;We saw that 83% wore masks just to protect themselves. A total of 50% did so to protect themselves, or because local businesses required that mask. The role of the state-wide mandate was the third biggest reason. We saw there was about 8% of the individuals that saw that as the only reason that they would wear a mask. So, that means about half of folks are focused on what local businesses will do now.&#8221; Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s mask mandate was officially rescinded on Wednesday. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uttyler.edu\/news\/pressrelease\/2021\/03092021.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler and Dallas Morning News have released results regarding a COVID-19 survey, and those numbers indicate masks may remain for some time. On Wednesday, UT-Tyler Political Science Professor, Dr. Mark Owens told KTBB news, &#8220;We saw that 83% wore masks just to protect themselves. A total of 50% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=979195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler, DMN survey reveals masks probably remain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":979203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/UT-Tyler-DMN-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT-Tyler, DMN survey reveals masks probably remain","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 14:00:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/UT-Tyler-DMN-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT-Tyler, DMN survey reveals masks probably remain","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979273,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979195\/revisions\/979273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/979203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}