{"id":7470,"date":"2020-06-11T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:19:38","slug":"effects-of-proactive-social-distancing-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-58-cities-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/effects-of-proactive-social-distancing-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-58-cities-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Proactive Social Distancing on COVID-19 Outbreaks in 58 Cities, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Du et al. estimated the speed of COVID-19 containment for 58 cities in mainland China outside of H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">u<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bei<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">*<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Province, which deployed 7 different types of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">social distancing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interventions over the course of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">epidemic.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Results showed the mean (+SD) time\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">elapse<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between the first confirmed case and the implementation of the first social distancing intervention was 13 (+4.7) days. The mean time until successful containment was 21 (+7) days after the first reported case and 8 (+6.8) days following the initiation of interventions.\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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They found a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1-day delay in implementing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the first intervention<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prolong<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0an outbreak by 2.4 (95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u20133.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) days. This highlights the potential long-term benefits of early and decisive action to implement potentially costly social\u00a0distancing\u00a0measures.<\/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\">Du et al. (June 9, 2020). Effects of Proactive Social Distancing on COVID-19 Outbreaks in 58 Cities, China. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2609.201932\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2609.201932<\/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<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">*Changed from \u201cHebei\u201d in primary manuscript based on review by Lit Rep team.<\/span><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>Du et al. estimated the speed of COVID-19 containment for 58 cities in mainland China outside of Hubei*\u00a0Province, which deployed 7 different types of\u00a0social distancing\u00a0interventions over the course of\u00a0the COVID-19\u00a0epidemic.\u00a0Results showed the mean (+SD) time\u00a0elapse\u00a0between the first confirmed case and the implementation of the first social distancing intervention was 13 (+4.7) days. The mean time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/effects-of-proactive-social-distancing-on-covid-19-outbreaks-in-58-cities-china\/\">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-7470","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\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7471,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}