{"id":8603,"date":"2021-04-02T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2021-04-06T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:47:09","slug":"the-impact-of-the-non-essential-business-closure-policy-on-covid-19-infection-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/02\/the-impact-of-the-non-essential-business-closure-policy-on-covid-19-infection-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of the Non-Essential Business Closure Policy on Covid-19 Infection Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workers designated as having essential jobs had an estimated 55% higher likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those with non-essential jobs in Pennsylvania from February to June 2020, according to a difference-in-differences model based on medical claims data. Household transmission was also estimated to be higher among essential workers. Dependents and roommates cohabiting with an essential worker were 17% and 38% more likely to have SARS-CoV-2 infection, respectively, compared to those of non-essential workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song et al.\u00a0(Apr 1, 2021). The Impact of the Non-Essential Business Closure Policy on Covid-19 Infection Rates. International Journal of Health Economics and Management. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10754-021-09302-9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10754-021-09302-9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers designated as having essential jobs had an estimated 55% higher likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those with non-essential jobs in Pennsylvania from February to June 2020, according to a difference-in-differences model based on medical claims data. Household transmission was also estimated to be higher among essential workers. Dependents and roommates cohabiting with an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/02\/the-impact-of-the-non-essential-business-closure-policy-on-covid-19-infection-rates\/\">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":[37,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","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=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8604,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}