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Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between the closure of “anchor businesses” – manufacturing plants and distribution centers employing >1000 workers – and the daily, county-level COVID-19 rate between March 1, 2020 and May 31, 2020. METHODS: We conducted a comparative, interrupted time...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8630922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34369476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002348 |
Sumario: | OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between the closure of “anchor businesses” – manufacturing plants and distribution centers employing >1000 workers – and the daily, county-level COVID-19 rate between March 1, 2020 and May 31, 2020. METHODS: We conducted a comparative, interrupted time series analysis of publicly available county-level data. Our main variable of interest was closure, indicating whether one or more of the anchor businesses within the county experienced a full or partial closure of at least 22 days (main analysis) or at least 1 day (sensitivity analyses). RESULTS: Closure of an anchor business was associated with 142 fewer positive COVID-19 tests per 100,000 population over a 40-day period. Even short-term and partial closures were associated with reduced spread. CONCLUSIONS: Temporary closure of anchor businesses appears to have slowed, but not completely contained, the spread of COVID-19. |
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