Effectiveness of government policies in response to the first COVID-19 outbreak

This paper assesses the quantitative impact of government interventions on deaths related to the first COVID-19 outbreak. Using daily data for 32 countries and relying on the stringency of the conducted policies, we find that the greater the strength of government interventions at an early stage, th...

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Autores principales: Dergiades, Theologos, Milas, Costas, Mossialos, Elias, Panagiotidis, Theodore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000242
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description This paper assesses the quantitative impact of government interventions on deaths related to the first COVID-19 outbreak. Using daily data for 32 countries and relying on the stringency of the conducted policies, we find that the greater the strength of government interventions at an early stage, the more effective these are in slowing down or reversing the growth rate of deaths. School closures have a significant impact on reducing the growth rate of deaths, which is less powerful compared to the case where a number of policy interventions are combined together. These results can be informative for governments in responding to future pandemics.
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spelling pubmed-100213342023-03-17 Effectiveness of government policies in response to the first COVID-19 outbreak Dergiades, Theologos Milas, Costas Mossialos, Elias Panagiotidis, Theodore PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article This paper assesses the quantitative impact of government interventions on deaths related to the first COVID-19 outbreak. Using daily data for 32 countries and relying on the stringency of the conducted policies, we find that the greater the strength of government interventions at an early stage, the more effective these are in slowing down or reversing the growth rate of deaths. School closures have a significant impact on reducing the growth rate of deaths, which is less powerful compared to the case where a number of policy interventions are combined together. These results can be informative for governments in responding to future pandemics. Public Library of Science 2022-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10021334/ /pubmed/36962226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000242 Text en © 2022 Dergiades et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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