{"id":10388,"date":"2021-06-14T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2021-06-16T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:46:31","slug":"effect-of-specific-non-pharmaceutical-intervention-policies-on-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-the-counties-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/14\/effect-of-specific-non-pharmaceutical-intervention-policies-on-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-the-counties-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Specific Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention Policies on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the Counties of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A modeling study estimating the impact of different non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) policies on the SARS-CoV-2 effective reproduction number (R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) found that NPIs that included closure of schools and leisure activities and nursing home visiting bans were all associated with a median R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0below 1 when combined with either stay at home orders (median R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a00.97) or face masks (median R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a00.97). The authors note that the simultaneous implementation of multiple NPI policies makes it difficult to estimate the effect of any one policy, particularly school closures.\u00a0Lifting restrictions on leisure activities (e.g., restaurants and gyms) was associated with increased\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, indicating higher transmission risks, while less dramatic changes in\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eff<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0were estimated for the removal of stay-at-home orders and medical service suspension. The authors suggest that these results indicate that relaxation of some NPIs will need to be counterbalanced by continuation and\/or implementation of others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yang et al.\u00a0(June 2021). Effect of Specific Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention Policies on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the Counties of the United States. Nature Communications. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-23865-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-23865-8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modeling study estimating the impact of different non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) policies on the SARS-CoV-2 effective reproduction number (Reff) found that NPIs that included closure of schools and leisure activities and nursing home visiting bans were all associated with a median Reff\u00a0below 1 when combined with either stay at home orders (median Reff\u00a00.97) or face&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/14\/effect-of-specific-non-pharmaceutical-intervention-policies-on-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-the-counties-of-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10389,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions\/10389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}