COVID-19 observations and accompanying dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions across U.S. universities, March 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) guidance for specific institutional audiences to limit community spread. Audiences include: business, clinical, public health, education, community, and state/local government. The swift, severe, and global nature of COVID-19 offers an opportunity to systematically obtain a national view of how larger institutions of higher education adopted NPI guidance at the onset of the pandemic.

Method

An original database of COVID-19-related university NPI policy changes was compiled. Survey team members manually combed university websites and official statements capturing implementation decisions and dates for five NPI variables from 575 U.S. universities, across 50

SUBMITTER: Cevasco KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567344 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature