ArticleInterface focus2021
A year of living distantly: global trends in the use of stay-at-home orders over the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 reduced the incidence of infectious diseases: a controlled interrupted time-series study.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Pooled it
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- The extent and diversity of harm from the drinking of unknown others in Australia: An analysis of data from during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on unmet needs for healthcare in Peru: an interrupted time series analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Behind closed doors: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 related lockdown on domestic violence in Peru.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Effectiveness assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.The Lancet. Public health · 2023Review
- Masturbation Prevalence, Frequency, Reasons, and Associations with Partnered Sex in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a U.S. Nationally Representative Survey.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Reddit language indicates changes associated with diet, physical activity, substance use, and smoking during COVID-19.PloS one · 2023Article
- What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns.Nature · 2022Article
- Evidence of pandemic fatigue associated with stricter tiered COVID-19 restrictions.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
- Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Diagnosis: Results from a Tertiary Care Center in North-West Italy.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
- A year of living distantly: global trends in the use of stay-at-home orders over the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.Interface focus · 2021Article
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Abstract
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were the main pillar of defence to protect human society against the virus. While a variety of modelling studies try to quantify the effects of NPIs, this paper investigates when and how national and subnational governments have taken actions. We observe longitudinal changes in the global pattern of policymaking to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on stay-at-home orders. Drawing on data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, we show several important trends. First, while national governments exhibited a strong alignment in policy settings initially in March and April 2020, their cross-country policy heterogeneity has grown since May 2020, although countries within global regions continue to display similarities in their approaches. Second, most governments that have implemented multiple stay-at-home orders over the course of the pandemic have become less sensitive to case levels (insofar as they implement subsequent restrictions at progressively higher case levels), apart from a small number of contrast cases which have mostly eliminated domestic community transmission. Third, pandemic policies are increasingly specific to subnational levels, and there is often significant heterogeneity with regard to policy approaches even within the same country.
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