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The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an unprecedented crisis in Spain. After Italy, the spread of the virus was quick, and Spain became the second epicenter in Europe by number of cases and deceased. To tackle the outbreak and contain the spread, the Spanish authorities undertook exceptional...

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Autores principales: Henríquez, Josefa, Gonzalo-Almorox, Eduardo, García-Goñi, Manuel, Paolucci, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.013
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author Henríquez, Josefa
Gonzalo-Almorox, Eduardo
García-Goñi, Manuel
Paolucci, Francesco
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an unprecedented crisis in Spain. After Italy, the spread of the virus was quick, and Spain became the second epicenter in Europe by number of cases and deceased. To tackle the outbreak and contain the spread, the Spanish authorities undertook exceptional measures based on a generalized lockdown by which the majority of the economic activity ceased for several weeks. OBJECTIVES: The goal of this paper is to examine the spread of COVID-19 in Spain from February to May 2020, as well as the public policies and technologies used to contain the evolution of the pandemic. In particular it aims to assess the effectivity of the policies applied within the different autonomous communities. Cases are presented until August as well as the main changes in containment and mitigation measures. METHODS: Data was collected from various official sources, including government reports, press releases and datasets provided by national and international level institutions. RESULTS: We show that the main measure to contain the spread of the pandemic was a stringent confinement policy enforced through fines. It resulted in a substantial reduction in the mobility and the economic activity. At a regional level, the negative consequences of the crisis affected differently across regions.
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spelling pubmed-74510112020-08-28 The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain Henríquez, Josefa Gonzalo-Almorox, Eduardo García-Goñi, Manuel Paolucci, Francesco Health Policy Technol Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an unprecedented crisis in Spain. After Italy, the spread of the virus was quick, and Spain became the second epicenter in Europe by number of cases and deceased. To tackle the outbreak and contain the spread, the Spanish authorities undertook exceptional measures based on a generalized lockdown by which the majority of the economic activity ceased for several weeks. OBJECTIVES: The goal of this paper is to examine the spread of COVID-19 in Spain from February to May 2020, as well as the public policies and technologies used to contain the evolution of the pandemic. In particular it aims to assess the effectivity of the policies applied within the different autonomous communities. Cases are presented until August as well as the main changes in containment and mitigation measures. METHODS: Data was collected from various official sources, including government reports, press releases and datasets provided by national and international level institutions. RESULTS: We show that the main measure to contain the spread of the pandemic was a stringent confinement policy enforced through fines. It resulted in a substantial reduction in the mobility and the economic activity. At a regional level, the negative consequences of the crisis affected differently across regions. Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7451011/ /pubmed/32874852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.013 Text en © 2020 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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