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Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China.
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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 655 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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655citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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655 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,372 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission: rapid review of evidence from Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- A modeling study on the critical sensitivity of epidemic peaks and final size to marginal changes in non-pharmaceutical intervention efficacy.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Integrated framework to study genomic surveillance of selective sweeps in multivariants dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Pathogen Profile of Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Wuhan, 2023: A BALF-Based Study.Canadian respiratory journal · 2026Article
- Global region-specific influenza early warning by establishing an epidemic intensity threshold system: a modeling study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Spatio-temporal modelling of COVID-19 infection and associated risk factors in Dakar, Senegal.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Integrated disease model considering mutation-induced infection waves with COVID-19 cases.PloS one · 2026Article
- Widening East-West inequality in life expectancy in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international comparative study.PloS one · 2026Article
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Authors and funding
12 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.
Shengjie Lai *WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. shengjie.lai@soton.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9781-8148
Nick W Ruktanonchai *WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. nr1e14@soton.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-7121
Liangcai ZhouWuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China.
Olivia ProsperDepartment of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-0616
Wei LuoComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Jessica R FloydWorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Amy WesolowskiDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Mauricio SantillanaComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Chi ZhangSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
Xiangjun DuSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
Hongjie YuSchool of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.
Andrew J TatemWorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. a.j.tatem@soton.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-941X
University of Southampton · GBBoston Children's Hospital · USSun Yat-sen University · CNFudan University · CNJohns Hopkins University · USMinistry of Education · KRUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · USWuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention · CN
Funding
Virology &ImmunologyU19AI051915 · NIAID · NATIONAL CENTER FOR AIDS/STD CONTROL AND PREVENTION · PI GAO, GEORGE FU · 2002 to 2009
$21.6MDisease Emergence and Elimination: Using Mobility Data to Inform Spatial Disease DynamicsDP2LM013102 · NLM · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WESOLOWSKI, AMY · 2018 to 2018
$2.5MDevelopment of an Open-Source and Data-Driven Modeling Platform to Monitor and Forecast Disease ActivityR01GM130668 · NIGMS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI SANTILLANA, MAURICIO · 2018 to 2022
$1.9MNIAID NIH HHS U19 AI051915NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130668NLM NIH HHS DP2 LM013102Wellcome Trust 204613
Abstract
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic
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Social IsolationChinaContact TracingCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Hand DisinfectionHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralQuarantineRisk AssessmentTime FactorsTravel
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