March 29, 2021

Evaluating the Effects of Shelter-in-Place Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

Keywords (Tags): non-pharm interventions, policy, social distancing

• A study of shelter-in-place (SIP) policies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (February 24 – May 30, 2020) in the US did not find the SIP policies impacted disease spread or deaths, but did impact mobility and unemployment. The authors note that SIP policies may not have made meaningfully impacts on behaviors beyond the extent to which people were already engaging in sheltering or distancing behaviors.

Berry et al. (Apr 13, 2021). Evaluating the Effects of Shelter-in-Place Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019706118