{"id":3280,"date":"2021-01-15T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2021-01-16T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:00:44","slug":"is-lockdown-effective-in-limiting-sars-cov-2-epidemic-progression-a-cross-country-comparative-evaluation-using-epidemiokinetic-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/15\/is-lockdown-effective-in-limiting-sars-cov-2-epidemic-progression-a-cross-country-comparative-evaluation-using-epidemiokinetic-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lockdown Effective in Limiting SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic Progression?\u2014A Cross-Country Comparative Evaluation Using Epidemiokinetic Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of lockdown measures and counts of COVID-19 cases across 9 countries using an SIR-based epidemic model found that lockdown policies were effective in reducing SARS CoV-2 infections. The models discerned two groups of countries. The first group included Sweden and the United States, which had either no lockdowns or abruptly ended lockdown policies and exhibited a prolonged plateau of new infections and higher values of R<sub>0<\/sub>. The second group of countries (New Zealand, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy) had early-onset stay-at-home orders followed by gradual deconfinement associated with a rapid reduction in infected individuals and lower R<sub>0<\/sub> during the study period of February 23, 2020 to June 14, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><i>M\u00e9garbane et al. (Jan 13, 2021). Is Lockdown Effective in Limiting SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic Progression?\u2014A Cross-Country Comparative Evaluation Using Epidemiokinetic Tools. Journal of General Internal Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-020-06345-5\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-020-06345-5<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of lockdown measures and counts of COVID-19 cases across 9 countries using an SIR-based epidemic model found that lockdown policies were effective in reducing SARS CoV-2 infections. The models discerned two groups of countries. The first group included Sweden and the United States, which had either no lockdowns or abruptly ended lockdown policies&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/15\/is-lockdown-effective-in-limiting-sars-cov-2-epidemic-progression-a-cross-country-comparative-evaluation-using-epidemiokinetic-tools\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-3280","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\/3280","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}