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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...
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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 |
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author | McHugh, Megan Tian, Yao Maechling, Claude R. Farley, Diane Holl, Jane L. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-86309222021-11-30 Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic McHugh, Megan Tian, Yao Maechling, Claude R. Farley, Diane Holl, Jane L. J Occup Environ Med Original Articles 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. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-12 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8630922/ /pubmed/34369476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002348 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Original Articles McHugh, Megan Tian, Yao Maechling, Claude R. Farley, Diane Holl, Jane L. Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title | Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title_full | Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title_short | Closure of Anchor Businesses Reduced COVID-19 Transmission During the Early Months of the Pandemic |
title_sort | closure of anchor businesses reduced covid-19 transmission during the early months of the pandemic |
topic | Original Articles |
url | 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 |
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