of Iowa's College of Public Health suggests that the 15 States and the District of Columbia, having mandated wearing face coverings in public between April 8, 2020, and May 15, 2020, averted as many as 230,000 to 450,000 COVID–19 cases. (9) Many Americans have heeded the calls of public health experts to wear cloth face coverings and have made major sacrifices in other aspects of their life in order to control the spread of the virus. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that — (1) following the consensus advice of public health experts to wear face coverings can meaningfully reduce transmission rates for COVID–19, resulting in fewer deaths, fewer Americans made seriously ill, and lower economic disruption