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SUBMITTER: Pei S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7821895 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pei Sen S Kandula Sasikiran S Shaman Jeffrey J
Science advances 20201204 49
Assessing the effects of early nonpharmaceutical interventions on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread is crucial for understanding and planning future control measures to combat the pandemic. We use observations of reported infections and deaths, human mobility data, and a metapopulation transmission model to quantify changes in disease transmission rates in U.S. counties from 15 March to 3 May 2020. We find that marked, asynchronous reductions of the basic reproductive number occurred th ...[more]