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I wonder if policies are the best measurement. Why not take e.g. the google movement data directly? I had a look at the german numbers and often the public rea
by anotheryou 6y ago
I wonder if policies are the best measurement. Why not take e.g. the google movement data directly?
I had a look at the german numbers and often the public reacted before the policy. Similarly they might subvert policies if they disagree, different cultures certainly got together in different ways, ect.
On the other hand I had a look at the "stringency index" of ourworldindata and found it doesn't represent all the little more or less compromising compromises in the policies very well.
- ghaff 6y agoYes, official policies seem a fairly poor proxy for how people have actually acted. This is an interesting site with respect to mobility (in the US). https://covid19.gleamproject.org/mobility https://covid19.gleamproject.org/mobility I played around with it a bit and you can certainly pick and choose cases where less mobility seemed to correspond to better outcomes. But you can also find other cases where less or more mobility didn't seem to lead to especially different outcomes.
- seniorsassycat 6y agoI haven't finished the paper the the abstract reads as if the authors used mobility data, not official policy, to measure stay at home. > In this ecological study, data from www.google.com/covid19/mobility/, ourworldindata.org and covid.saude.gov.br were combined. Countries with > 100 deaths and with a Healthcare Access and Quality Index of ≥ 67 were included. Data were preprocessed and analyzed using the difference between number of deaths/million between 2 regions and the difference between the percentage of staying at home.
- anotheryou 6y agothanks!