{"id":6857,"date":"2020-05-15T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:30:31","slug":"strong-social-distancing-measures-in-the-united-states-reduced-the-covid-19-growth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/15\/strong-social-distancing-measures-in-the-united-states-reduced-the-covid-19-growth-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Social Distancing Measures\u00a0In\u00a0The\u00a0United States Reduced The COVID-19 Growth Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Researchers evaluated the impact of four government-imposed social distancing measures, including public school closures, bans on large social gatherings, closures of entertainment-related businesses, and shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs) on the spread of COVID-19 across US counties<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ir<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0combined adoption reduced the daily growth rate by 9.1% after 16-20 days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">implementation.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">considered\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">separately, each measure was associated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reduction\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the daily growth rate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0but school closures and social gathering bans did not have a significant effect, suggesting that these policies may displace<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0rather than reduce<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0social interaction<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Courtemanche et al. (May 14, 2020). Strong Social Distancing Measures\u00a0In\u00a0The\u00a0United States Reduced The COVID-19 Growth Rate.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Health Affairs<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2020.00608\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2020.00608<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers evaluated the impact of four government-imposed social distancing measures, including public school closures, bans on large social gatherings, closures of entertainment-related businesses, and shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs) on the spread of COVID-19 across US counties. They\u00a0found that\u00a0their\u00a0combined adoption reduced the daily growth rate by 9.1% after 16-20 days\u00a0of\u00a0implementation.\u00a0\u00a0 When\u00a0considered\u00a0separately, each measure was associated\u00a0with a\u00a0reduction\u00a0in\u00a0the daily&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/15\/strong-social-distancing-measures-in-the-united-states-reduced-the-covid-19-growth-rate\/\">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-6857","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\/6857","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=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}