{"id":7519,"date":"2020-06-12T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:45:19","slug":"rationing-social-contact-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-transmission-risk-and-social-benefits-of-us-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/rationing-social-contact-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-transmission-risk-and-social-benefits-of-us-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationing Social Contact during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations"},"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\">Benzell\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ranked the relative transmission reduction benefit and social costs (including employment costs) of closing 26 categories of public spaces in the US. The authors\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">concluded that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0banks, dentists, colleges, places of worship,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">auto repair shops should be opened before gyms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cafes. Among stores, they found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">electronics and furniture stores should be opened before liquor and tobacco stores.<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Banks, general merchandise stores, grocery stores, dentists, and colleges and universities had disproportionately high\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">economic and consumer\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">importance for their level of risk.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cafes, hardware stores, museums, amusement parks,\u00a0book stores, liquor and tobacco stores, gyms, and sporting goods stores had disproportionately low importance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for their level of risk.<\/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\">Benzell\u00a0et al. (June 10, 2020). Rationing Social Contact during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">PNAS<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2008025117\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2008025117<\/span><\/i><\/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>Benzell\u00a0et al.\u00a0ranked the relative transmission reduction benefit and social costs (including employment costs) of closing 26 categories of public spaces in the US. The authors\u00a0concluded that\u00a0banks, dentists, colleges, places of worship,\u00a0and\u00a0auto repair shops should be opened before gyms\u00a0andcafes. Among stores, they found\u00a0that\u00a0electronics and furniture stores should be opened before liquor and tobacco stores.\u00a0\u00a0 Banks, general&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/rationing-social-contact-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-transmission-risk-and-social-benefits-of-us-locations\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","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=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}