{"id":3342,"date":"2021-01-21T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2021-01-22T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:18:12","slug":"estimating-the-effects-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-the-number-of-new-infections-with-covid-19-during-the-first-epidemic-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/estimating-the-effects-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-the-number-of-new-infections-with-covid-19-during-the-first-epidemic-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on the Number of New Infections with COVID-19 during the First Epidemic Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> Using a Bayesian model and data from the first epidemic wave of 20 countries (including the US) to examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, event bans (canceling mass gatherings of &gt;50 people) were associated with the highest reduction in the number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections. Event bans reduced new infections by 37%, followed by venue closures (18%) and school closures (17%). Stay-at-home orders were estimated to reduce new infections only by 4%.<\/p>\n<p><i>Banholzer et al. (Jan 20, 2021). Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on the Number of New Infections with COVID-19 during the First Epidemic Wave. Pre-print downloaded Jan 21 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.01.15.21249884\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.01.15.21249884<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed] Using a Bayesian model and data from the first epidemic wave of 20 countries (including the US) to examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, event bans (canceling mass gatherings of &gt;50 people) were associated with the highest reduction in the number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections. Event bans reduced new infections by&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/estimating-the-effects-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-the-number-of-new-infections-with-covid-19-during-the-first-epidemic-wave\/\">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":[37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}