ArticleBMC public health2021
Differential impact of non-pharmaceutical public health interventions on COVID-19 epidemics in the United States.
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Abstract
backgroundThe widespread pandemic of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses an unprecedented global health crisis. In the United States (US), different state governments have adopted various combinations of non-pharmaceutical public health interventions (NPIs), such as non-essential business closures and gathering bans, to mitigate the epidemic from February to April, 2020. Quantitative assessment on the effectiveness of NPIs is greatly needed to assist in guiding individualized decision making for adjustment of interventions in the US and around the world. However, the impacts of these approaches remain uncertain.
methodsBased on the reported cases, the effective reproduction number (R
resultsDifferent NPIs were found to have led to different levels of reduction in R
conclusionsThis retrospective assessment of NPIs on R
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