Assessing government policies' impact on the COVID-19 pandemic and elderly deaths in East Asia.

ABSTRACT: This study assesses governments' long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions upon the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in East Asia. It advances the literature towards a better understanding of when and which control measures are effective. We (1) provide time-varying case fatality ratios and focus on the elderly's mortality and case fatality ratios, (2) measure the correlations between daily new cases (daily new deaths) and each index based on multiple domestic pandemic waves and (3) examine the lead-lag relationship between daily new cases (daily new deaths) and each index via the cross-correlation functions on the pre-whitened series. Our results show that the interventions reduce COVID-19 infections for some periods before the period of the Omicron variant. Moreover, there i

SUBMITTER: Chen CWS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472036 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature