Government management capacities and the containment of COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional study across Chinese cities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Better understanding of the dynamics of the COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus disease) pandemic to curb its spread is now a global imperative. While travel restrictions and control measures have been shown to limit the spread of the disease, the effectiveness of the enforcement of those measures should depend on the strength of the government. Whether, and how, the government plays a role in fighting the disease, however, has not been investigated. Here, we show that government management capacities are critical to the containment of the disease.

Setting

We conducted a statistical analysis based on cross-city comparisons within China. China has undergone almost the entire cycle of the anticoronavirus campaign, which allows us to trace the full dynamics of the outbr

SUBMITTER: Li W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8021481 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature