Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review

N Perra - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases and human behavior are intertwined. On one side, our movements and
interactions are the engines of transmission. On the other, the unfolding of viruses might …

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on glycemic control in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

C Eberle, S Stichling - Diabetology & metabolic syndrome, 2021 - Springer
Background In 2019, a new virus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was classified …

A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)

T Hale, N Angrist, R Goldszmidt, B Kira… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented government action around the world. We introduce
the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), a dataset that addresses …

Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions

N Haug, L Geyrhofer, A Londei, E Dervic… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to mitigate the
spread of SARS-CoV-2 is critical to inform future preparedness response plans. Here we …

Understanding the effectiveness of government interventions against the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe

M Sharma, S Mindermann, C Rogers-Smith… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
European governments use non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to control resurging
waves of COVID-19. However, they only have outdated estimates for how effective individual …

Unwillingness to engage in behaviors that protect against COVID-19: the role of conspiracy beliefs, trust, and endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine

A Soveri, LC Karlsson, J Antfolk, M Lindfelt… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background We investigated if people's response to the official recommendations during the
COVID-19 pandemic is associated with conspiracy beliefs related to COVID-19, a distrust in …

Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave

JT Davis, M Chinazzi, N Perra, K Mu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Considerable uncertainty surrounds the timeline of introductions and onsets of local
transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) globally …

Measuring the scientific effectiveness of contact tracing: Evidence from a natural experiment

T Fetzer, T Graeber - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Contact tracing has for decades been a cornerstone of the public health approach to
epidemics, including Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and now COVID-19. It has …

A network-based explanation of why most COVID-19 infection curves are linear

S Thurner, P Klimek, R Hanel - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Many countries have passed their first COVID-19 epidemic peak. Traditional
epidemiological models describe this as a result of nonpharmaceutical interventions …

An exploration of the political, social, economic and cultural factors affecting how different global regions initially reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic

JW Tang, MA Caniza, M Dinn, DE Dwyer… - Interface …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Responses to the early (February–July 2020) COVID-19 pandemic varied widely, globally.
Reasons for this are multiple but likely relate to the healthcare and financial resources then …