Early social distancing policies in Europe, changes in mobility & COVID-19 case trajectories: Insights from Spring 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social distancing have been widely used to mitigate community spread of SARS-CoV-2. We sought to quantify the impact of COVID-19 social distancing policies across 27 European counties in spring 2020 on population mobility and the subsequent trajectory of disease.

Methods

We obtained data on national social distancing policies from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and aggregated and anonymized mobility data from Google. We used a pre-post comparison and two linear mixed-effects models to first assess the relationship between implementation of national policies and observed changes in mobility, and then to assess the relationship between changes in mobility and rates of COVID-19 infections in subsequent weeks.

Results

Compared to a pre-COVID ba

SUBMITTER: Woskie LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244916 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature