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I hear this regurgitated very often but I've never seen any evidence of this. Basic reasoning follows that there would be some drop in cases as a result of the
by tdfx 6y ago
I hear this regurgitated very often but I've never seen any evidence of this. Basic reasoning follows that there would be some drop in cases as a result of the forced closure of all non-essential businesses, but due to the universal nature of the closures I'm not aware of any way to quantify how much it's helping. It could very well be that widespread social distancing and voluntary measures could produce a similar outcome. Is there any study that confirms or debunks this?
- iancmceachern 6y agoI'm not familiar with one, and would think it would be very hard to create the controlled circumstances to so so without so many other variables between the study areas confounding the data too much.
- joshuamorton 6y agoYou can generally infer it from restrictions in places that had high case counts and then enforced stay at home measures. Looking at the per-day growth rates in NYC, Italy, LA, etc. before and after the instantiation of stay at home measures is pretty convincing. We'll probably have some more data as places start to reopen.