{"id":8707,"date":"2020-08-04T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:00:23","slug":"social-distancing-laws-cause-only-small-losses-of-economic-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/social-distancing-laws-cause-only-small-losses-of-economic-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-scandinavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing Laws Cause Only Small Losses of Economic Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"49\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sheridan et al. used real-time transaction data from a large Scandinavian bank\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to estimate reduction in aggregate spending due COVID-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">19,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found that most of the economic contraction\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wa<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s due to the pandemic in Scandinavian countries, rather than lockdown policies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In Sweden, there was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a 25%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reduction<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in aggregate spending\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as a result of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. In Denmark, where policies to control the pandemic where imposed, there was an additional 4% reduction<\/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;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sheridan et al. (Aug 2020). Social Distancing Laws Cause Only Small Losses of Economic Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scandinavia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2010068117\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2010068117<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheridan et al. used real-time transaction data from a large Scandinavian bank\u00a0to estimate reduction in aggregate spending due COVID-19,\u00a0and\u00a0found that most of the economic contraction\u00a0was due to the pandemic in Scandinavian countries, rather than lockdown policies.\u00a0In Sweden, there was\u00a0a 25%\u00a0reduction\u00a0in aggregate spending\u00a0as a result of\u00a0the\u00a0pandemic. In Denmark, where policies to control the pandemic where imposed,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/social-distancing-laws-cause-only-small-losses-of-economic-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-scandinavia\/\">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-8707","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\/8707","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=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}