Measuring voluntary and policy-induced social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Abstract
Early in the US COVID-19 epidemic, Americans spent substantially more time at home to reduce cases. Disentangling voluntary from policy-induced behavioral changes is critical for governments grappling with relaxing or renewing restrictions. We estimate the number of additional reported cases that would have been needed to elicit a voluntary behavioral response equivalent to the behavioral response to policy. A substantial share of the observed behavioral response was voluntary. Stay-at-home orders increased the time people spent at home by replacing voluntary actions that likely would have emerged as cases rose. Our analysis is an initial step in answering the critical policy question as to whether fast forwarding the response provides sufficient public health benefits to justify the mandates.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.01.20087874: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank…
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.01.20087874: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
- Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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