Background Restricting human mobility is an effective strategy used to control disease
spread. However, whether mobility restriction is a proportional response to control the …

Background Applying heavy nationwide restrictions is a powerful method to curtail COVID-
19 transmission but poses a significant humanitarian and economic crisis. Thus, it is …

Background Within 4 months of COVID-19 first being reported in the USA, it spread to every
state and to more than 90% of all counties. During this period, the US COVID-19 response …

Background COVID-19 poses a severe threat worldwide. This study analyzes its
propagation and evaluates statistically the effect of mobility restriction policies on the spread …

Background As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, understanding how
patterns of human mobility and connectivity affect outbreak dynamics, especially before …

The first wave of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in China showed there
was a lag between the reduction in human mobility and the decline in COVID-19 …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have sought to control SARS-CoV-2
transmission by restricting population movement through social distancing interventions …

Background In early 2020, the response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic focused on non-
pharmaceutical interventions, some of which aimed to reduce transmission by changing …

Understanding factors that affect the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is crucial for mitigating the impacts of COVID-19. Hamada Badr …

Without a widely distributed vaccine, controlling human mobility has been identified and
promoted as the primary strategy to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. Many studies …