A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation

We present an analysis of the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and a social distancing metric from data for all the states and most populous cities in the United States and Brazil, all the 22 European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom. We discuss why the infection ra...

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Autores principales:	Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho, Marcelo A. Moret, José F. F. Mendes
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	COVID-19 social isolation epidemiological model Science Q Astrophysics QB460-466 Physics QC1-999
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c7d9d6c5d18342d4a976628d665d5034
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c7d9d6c5d18342d4a976628d665d50342021-11-25T17:30:36ZA Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation10.3390/e231115301099-4300https://doaj.org/article/c7d9d6c5d18342d4a976628d665d50342021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/11/1530https://doaj.org/toc/1099-4300We present an analysis of the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and a social distancing metric from data for all the states and most populous cities in the United States and Brazil, all the 22 European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom. We discuss why the infection rate, instead of the effective reproduction number or growth rate of cases, is a proper choice to perform this analysis when considering a wide span of time. We obtain a strong Spearman’s rank order correlation between the social distancing metric and the infection rate in each locality. We show that mask mandates increase the values of Spearman’s correlation in the United States, where a mandate was adopted. We also obtain an explicit numerical relation between the infection rate and the social distancing metric defined in the present work.Tarcísio M. Rocha FilhoMarcelo A. MoretJosé F. F. MendesMDPI AGarticleCOVID-19social isolationepidemiological modelScienceQAstrophysicsQB460-466PhysicsQC1-999ENEntropy, Vol 23, Iss 1530, p 1530 (2021)
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spellingShingle	COVID-19 social isolation epidemiological model Science Q Astrophysics QB460-466 Physics QC1-999 Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho Marcelo A. Moret José F. F. Mendes A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
description	We present an analysis of the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and a social distancing metric from data for all the states and most populous cities in the United States and Brazil, all the 22 European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom. We discuss why the infection rate, instead of the effective reproduction number or growth rate of cases, is a proper choice to perform this analysis when considering a wide span of time. We obtain a strong Spearman’s rank order correlation between the social distancing metric and the infection rate in each locality. We show that mask mandates increase the values of Spearman’s correlation in the United States, where a mandate was adopted. We also obtain an explicit numerical relation between the infection rate and the social distancing metric defined in the present work.
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author	Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho Marcelo A. Moret José F. F. Mendes
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title	A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
title_short	A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
title_full	A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
title_fullStr	A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
title_full_unstemmed	A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation
title_sort	transnational and transregional study of the impact and effectiveness of social distancing for covid-19 mitigation
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publishDate	2021
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A Transnational and Transregional Study of the Impact and Effectiveness of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Mitigation

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