However, most U.S. states, regardless, have imposed home maintenance orders, and those prescriptions seem to have particularly curbed the spread of the disease across the country.
These effects, along with a breakdown of coVID-19’s immediate status of the immediate before and after closing orders, were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on Saturday, August 1.
“Understanding the trajectory of the epidemic in the United States is essential, and measuring the effect of home orders on epidemic expansion provides evidence of existing and long-term control and containment measures for COVID-19,” said Mark Lurie, associate professor of epidemiology at Brown University. “While this is not a randomized trial and therefore we cannot identify causation, what was transparent in our study was that the recipes for staying at home were particularly related to slower rates of epidemic expansion.”
Lurie, the study’s lead co-author, along with a team of researchers from Brown School of Public Health and Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
Calculated the duplication time of the pandemic, the time it takes to double the number of instances, either nationally and for individual states. An increase in duplication time indicates a slowdown in the pandemic.
This map highlights the percentage that accumulates in the time of duplication of the epidemic between the order before the house remains and the periods of order of the house, across the state.
Before the effects of large-scale locks became apparent, from 4 March to 4 April, the time of doubling the national pandemic of 2.68 days. This duplication time increased considerably, reaching an average of 15 days, between April 5 and 30. That is, the number of instances doubled less than 3 days before the mitigation measures were implemented. On the other hand, after mitigation measures, the number of instances took more than two weeks to double.
But while duplication times were expanding across states, the accumulation rate varied. On average, the forty-five states with home prescriptions in position added approximately 12.27 days to their duplication times, indicating a significant slowdown in the spread of the disease. Meanwhile, the five states without housing orders (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) added only about six days to their doubling times, and 4 of the states recorded some of the worst duplication rates in the country.
“We hope that these effects will contribute to the development of an evidence framework to review the full COVID-19 course in the United States,” said Joe Silva, Ph.D. Brown School of Public Health student and some other primary co-author of the exam. “This study does not mean that home orders were the only thing that led to the observed accumulation in the time of duplication of the epidemic, but knowledge may be representative of the effect of multiple measures of public aptitude.”
While the researchers published their findings, they made him aware that the United States has managed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, he added.