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  • Titel: Effect of specific non-pharmaceutical intervention policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the counties of the United States
  • Beteiligte: Yang, Bingyi; Huang, Angkana T.; Garcia-Carreras, Bernardo; Hart, William E.; Staid, Andrea; Hitchings, Matt D. T.; Lee, Elizabeth C.; Howe, Chanelle J.; Grantz, Kyra H.; Wesolowksi, Amy; Lemaitre, Joseph Chadi; Rattigan, Susan; Moreno, Carlos; Borgert, Brooke A.; Dale, Celeste; Quigley, Nicole; Cummings, Andrew; McLorg, Alizée; LoMonaco, Kaelene; Schlossberg, Sarah; Barron-Kraus, Drew; Shrock, Harrison; Khoury, Stephanie; Indra, Meenal; [...]
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021
  • Erschienen in: Nature Communications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23865-8
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
  • Schlagwörter: General Physics and Astronomy ; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ; General Chemistry ; Multidisciplinary
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) remain the only widely available tool for controlling the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We estimated weekly values of the effective basic reproductive number (R<jats:sub>eff</jats:sub>) using a mechanistic metapopulation model and associated these with county-level characteristics and NPIs in the United States (US). Interventions that included school and leisure activities closure and nursing home visiting bans were all associated with a median R<jats:sub>eff</jats:sub> below 1 when combined with either stay at home orders (median R<jats:sub>eff</jats:sub> 0.97, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.58–1.39) or face masks (median R<jats:sub>eff</jats:sub> 0.97, 95% CI 0.58–1.39). While direct causal effects of interventions remain unclear, our results suggest that relaxation of some NPIs will need to be counterbalanced by continuation and/or implementation of others.</jats:p>
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