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Stay at home order7/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Various degrees of these social distancing measures were employed in the mitigation of previous respiratory viral pandemics such as the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, when clear pharmaceutical treatments or vaccines were unavailable. These measures have become commonly adopted practices on a world-wide scale, with the goal of reducing the frequency of physical contact and subsequent transmission of the virus between persons. Social distancing measures, aimed at reducing contact between people, include school closings, stay-at-home mandates, and government support for telecommuting. Įxtrapolation from epidemiological models of COVID-19 has suggested that intensive physical distancing could “flatten the curve” and prevent the overloading of our health systems. Healthcare systems and governments worldwide have been under pressure since this designation to implement strategies and containment measures against COVID-19, an unprecedented virus with challenges in all that is left to learn. ![]() Since the first case announced on December 8, 2019, in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has spread internationally with the eventual announcement of a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Ma. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory disease spread primarily through the inhalation of infectious droplets and aerosol particles. Regions in which mandates were implemented late experienced a prolonged duration to reaching both peak daily case and death counts. Our study supports the association between the timing of stay-at-home orders and the time to peak case and death counts for both countries and US states. The largest effect was among regions classified as the latest 10% to implement a mandate, which in the US, predicted an extra 35.3 days (95% CI: 18.2, 52.5) to the peak number of cases, and 38.3 days (95% CI: 23.6, 53.0) to the peak number of deaths. Resultsįor countries and US states, a longer period of time between the first reported case and stay-at-home mandates was associated with a longer time to reach both the peak daily case and death counts. We conducted linear regression analyses, controlling for the case rate of the outbreak in each respective region. ![]() Our primary outcomes were the time from the first reported case to the highest number of daily cases and daily deaths. Our primary exposure was the time between the date of the first reported case of COVID-19 to an implemented stay-at-home mandate for each region. We conducted an observational analysis from April to May 2020 and included both countries and US states with known stay-at-home orders. This study focuses specifically on the impact of stay-at-home orders, both nationally and internationally, on the control of COVID-19. The economic, psychological, and social impact of pandemics and social distancing measures prompt the urgent need to determine the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), especially those considered most stringent such as stay-at-home and self-isolation mandates. ![]()
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