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ArticleEpidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland)2021

The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica.

Luis A Barboza, Paola Vásquez, Gustavo Mery, Fabio Sanchez, Yury E García, Juan G Calvo, Tania Rivas, María Dolores Pérez, Daniel Salas

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Article in Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Luis A BarbozaCentro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada-Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca 11501, Costa Rica.ORCID 0000-0002-7009-5207
Paola VásquezCentro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada-Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca 11501, Costa Rica.
Gustavo MeryPan America Health Organization, World Health Organization, San José 10102, Costa Rica.
Fabio SanchezCentro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada-Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca 11501, Costa Rica.ORCID 0000-0002-5552-3672
Yury E GarcíaCentro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada-Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca 11501, Costa Rica.
Juan G CalvoCentro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada-Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca 11501, Costa Rica.ORCID 0000-0001-9948-9966
Tania RivasMinistry of Health, San José 10102, Costa Rica.
María Dolores PérezPan America Health Organization, World Health Organization, San José 10102, Costa Rica.
Daniel SalasMinistry of Health, San José 10102, Costa Rica.
Universidad de Costa Rica · CRMinisterio de Agricultura y Ganadería de Costa Rica · CR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to infer the effects that change on human mobility had on the transmission dynamics during the first four months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Costa Rica, which could have played a role in delaying community transmission in the country. First, by using parametric and non-parametric change-point detection techniques, we were able to identify two different periods when the trend of daily new cases significantly changed. Second, we explored the association of these changes with data on population mobility. This also allowed us to estimate the lag between changes in human mobility and rates of daily new cases. The information was then used to establish an association between changes in population mobility and the sanitary measures adopted during the study period. Results showed that during the initial two months of the pandemic in Costa Rica, the implementation of sanitary measures and their impact on reducing human mobility translated to a mean reduction of 54% in the number of daily cases from the projected number, delaying community transmission.

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bayesian estimationchange-pointhuman mobilitypublic healthSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36417226
PMCPMC9620913
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