As of today, there are over 18 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 324,000 deaths in the United States. Worldwide, nonpharmacologic interventions (NPIs) have been the main tool used to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes social distancing measures (closing businesses, closing schools, and quarantining symptomatic persons) and contact tracing (tracking and following exposed individuals).
This study is the first large-scale NPI analysis at the county level demonstrating a correlation between NPIs and decreased rates of COVID-19.
Thank you to our research team for leading this informative study:
Henry Ashworth, Cray Noah, Adesh Kadambi and Senan Ebrahim.
From the Massachusetts General Hospital:
Jagpreet Chhatwal and Asmae Toumi
Read our article on how NPI policies factor into limiting the local spread of the COVID-19 in the US.