Behavioral changes before lockdown and decreased retail and recreation mobility during lockdown contributed most to controlling COVID-19 in Western countries
- Authors: Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Jurgen Vercauteren, Koen Deforche, Viktor Müller
- Publication Year: 2021
- Journal: BMC Public Health, 21, art 654
- Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10676-1
ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a lockdown in many countries to control the exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, hereby reducing the time-varying basic reproduction number (Rt) to below one. Governments are looking for evidence to balance the demand of their citizens to ease some of the restriction, against the fear of a […]
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