{"id":5462,"date":"2020-03-26T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:51:53","slug":"an-international-comparison-of-the-second-derivative-of-covid-19-deaths-after-implementation-of-social-distancing-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/26\/an-international-comparison-of-the-second-derivative-of-covid-19-deaths-after-implementation-of-social-distancing-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"An international comparison of the second derivative of COVID-19 deaths after implementation of social distancing measures."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study suggests that early adoption of social distancing is more effective than delayed implementation, even of highly restrictive measures, implying that there may be a threshold of public health interventions after which a decline in death rates begins to occur.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This method may be helpful in planning for and monitoring the relaxation of social distancing and evaluating the effectiveness of implementation in individual countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pike &amp; Saini (Mar 25, 2020). An international comparison of the second derivative of COVID-19 deaths after implementation of social distancing measures. Pre-print downloaded Mar 26 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.25.20041475\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.25.20041475<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study suggests that early adoption of social distancing is more effective than delayed implementation, even of highly restrictive measures, implying that there may be a threshold of public health interventions after which a decline in death rates begins to occur.\u00a0 This method may be helpful in planning for and monitoring the relaxation of social&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/26\/an-international-comparison-of-the-second-derivative-of-covid-19-deaths-after-implementation-of-social-distancing-measures\/\">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":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","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=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}