{"id":8066,"date":"2020-07-09T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:57:01","slug":"social-distancing-population-density-and-spread-of-covid-19-in-england-a-longitudinal-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/social-distancing-population-density-and-spread-of-covid-19-in-england-a-longitudinal-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing, Population Density, and Spread of COVID-19 in England: A Longitudinal Study"},"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\">Based on a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5-week\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">longitudinal study,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Tammes showed that COVID-19 incidence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decreased more in the most densely populated administrative areas compared to less dense areas after the introduction of physical distancing measures by the UK government (March 16-22). In the last week of the study (April 13-19), the incidence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was 22.4 per 100,000 persons (95% CI 16.9-28.0) in areas in the highest density quartile, which was lower than the rates in the three lower<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0density quartiles\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(31.4 to 43.2 per 100,000 persons).<\/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\">Tammes. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">7,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Social Distancing, Population Density, and Spread of COVID-19 in England: A Longitudinal Study. BJGP Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3399\/bjgpopen20X101116\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3399\/bjgpopen20X101116<\/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>Based on a\u00a05-week\u00a0longitudinal study,\u00a0Tammes showed that COVID-19 incidence\u00a0decreased more in the most densely populated administrative areas compared to less dense areas after the introduction of physical distancing measures by the UK government (March 16-22). In the last week of the study (April 13-19), the incidence\u00a0was 22.4 per 100,000 persons (95% CI 16.9-28.0) in areas in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/social-distancing-population-density-and-spread-of-covid-19-in-england-a-longitudinal-study\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","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=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}