期刊
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 310, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115308
关键词
COVID-19; Mitigation; Social distancing; Shelter-in-Place; Pro-social characteristics
资金
- Schar Foundation: Schar Initiative fund
According to this study, the success of controlling the spread of COVID-19 relies on how communities respond to non-pharmaceutical mitigation policies. Shelter-in-place and social distancing policies are particularly important. The study found that counties with strong state social distancing policies and high pro-social character showed lower mobility after reopening. However, counties with longer duration of shelter-in-place orders exhibited higher mobility, suggesting that the duration of the order may impact social distancing response.
During the pre-vaccine period, the success of containing the spread of COVID-19 depends upon how communities respond to non-pharmaceutical mitigation policies such as social distancing, wearing of masks, retail and dining constraints, crowd limitation, and shelter-in-place orders. Of these policies, shelter-in-place and social distancing are of central importance. By using county-level mobility data as a measure of a community's voluntary compliance with social distancing policies, this study found that counties who received strong state social distancing policy directives and who had a high pro-social character showed lower mobility on retail and rec-reation mobility and grocery and pharmacy mobility (better social distancing) after states reopened from shelter -in-place orders. Counties that experienced a longer duration of shelter-in-place orders showed higher mobility (less social distancing), implying that the duration of the shelter-in-place order deteriorated social distancing response after reopening. This may be because reopening sent a safe signal to these counties or resulted in a response to the pent-up demand inducing higher mobility. The results indicate that implementing shelter-in -place and social distancing policies to slow down the transmission of COVID-19 were not necessarily effective in motivating a county to reduce mobility voluntarily. A county's pro-social character and the duration of shelter -in-place order should be considered when designing COVID-19 mitigation policies.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据