{"id":7019,"date":"2020-05-21T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:05:26","slug":"differential-effects-of-intervention-timing-on-covid-19-spread-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/differential-effects-of-intervention-timing-on-covid-19-spread-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pei et al. estimated that if non-pharmaceutical interventions in the U.S. had been implemented 1-2 weeks earlier, then 62% (95% CI: 55%-68%) of reported COVID-19 infections and 55% (95% CI: 46%-62%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of reported deaths would have been averted. The authors also estimated that longer delays in re-implementing social distancing following a relaxation of control measures\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could result<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a stronger rebound of infections and death.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pei et al. (May 20, 2020). Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States. Pre-print downloaded May 21 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.15.20103655\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.15.20103655<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Pei et al. estimated that if non-pharmaceutical interventions in the U.S. had been implemented 1-2 weeks earlier, then 62% (95% CI: 55%-68%) of reported COVID-19 infections and 55% (95% CI: 46%-62%)\u00a0of reported deaths would have been averted. The authors also estimated that longer delays in re-implementing social distancing following a relaxation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/differential-effects-of-intervention-timing-on-covid-19-spread-in-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":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7019","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\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}