The Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 Mortality: A Generalized Synthetic Control Approach Across 169 Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Governments have introduced non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the pandemic outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). While NPIs aim at preventing fatalities related to COVID-19, the previous literature on their efficacy has focused on infections and on data of the first half of 2020. Still, findings of early NPI studies may be subject to underreporting and missing timeliness of reporting of cases. Moreover, the low variation in treatment timing during the first wave makes identification of robust treatment effects difficult.

Objective

We enhance the literature on the effectiveness of NPIs with respect to the period, the number of countries, and the analytical approach.

Design setting and participants

To circumvent problems of reportin

SUBMITTER: Mader S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013850 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature