COVID-19 crisis monitor: assessing the effectiveness of exit strategies in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: As COVID-19-related health indicators improve after restrictive measures were set in place in different parts of the world, governments are expected to guide how to ease interventions while minimizing the risk of resurgent outbreaks. Whereas epidemiologists track the progress of the disease using daily indicators to understand the pandemic better, economic activity indicators are usually available at a lower frequency and with considerable time lags. We propose and implement a timely trade-based regional economic activity indicator (EAI) that uses high-frequency traffic data to monitor daily sectoral economic activity in different sectors for the Brazilian State of São Paulo, a highly impacted region, overcoming the challenge of real-time assessment of the economy amid the COVID-19 outbrea

SUBMITTER: Haddad EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8610368 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature