Impact of Covid-19 control strategies on health and GDP growth outcomes in 193 sovereign jurisdictions.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic caused approximately 27.3 million excess deaths globally as of June 2024. Despite growing research on pandemic response factors, the effectiveness of different strategic approaches to Covid-19 control remains insufficiently investigated. We aimed to examine associations between Covid-19 pandemic control strategies (including stringent border restrictions) with age-standardized excess mortality and GDP per capita growth outcomes during 2020-2021. We analyzed 193 sovereign jurisdictions with existing Global Burden of Disease Study data. Jurisdictions were classified by implementation of exclusion/elimination strategies reported in published literature, and the level of border restriction measures based on the Oxford Stringency Index. Multivariable analyses adjusted for

SUBMITTER: Boyd M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530520 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature