State heterogeneity in the associations of human mobility with COVID-19 epidemics in the European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human mobility was associated with epidemic changes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the countries, where strict public health interventions reduced human mobility and COVID-19 epidemics. But its association with COVID-19 epidemics in the European Union (EU) is unclear.

Methods

In this quasi-experimental interrupted time-series study, we modelled trends in human mobility and epidemics of COVID-19 in 27 EU states between January 15 and May 9, 2020. The associations of lockdown-date, and turning points of these trends were assessed.

Results

There were 982,332 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the EU states (median 7,896, interquartile 1,689 to 25,702 for individual states) during the study-period. COVID-19 and human mobility had 3 trend-segments

SUBMITTER: Yuan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724319 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature