Impact of the stringency of lockdown measures on covid-19: A theoretical model of a pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How effective have lockdowns been at reducing the covid-19 infection and mortality rates? Lockdowns influence contact among persons within or between populations including restricting travel, closing schools, prohibiting public gatherings, requiring workplace closures, all designed to slow the contagion of the virus. The purpose of the present study was to assess the impact of lockdown measures on the spread of covid-19 and test a theoretical model of the covid-19 pandemic employing structural equation modelling.

Methods

Lockdown variables, population demographics, mortality rates, infection rates, and health were obtained for eight countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The dataset, owid-covid-data.csv, wa

SUBMITTER: Violato C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491873 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature