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The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica

The aim of this paper is to infer the effects that change on human mobility had on the transmission dynamics during the first four months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Costa Rica, which could have played a role in delaying community transmission in the country. First, by using parametric and non-par...

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Autores principales: Barboza, Luis A., Vásquez, Paola, Mery, Gustavo, Sanchez, Fabio, García, Yury E., Calvo, Juan G., Rivas, Tania, Pérez, María Dolores, Salas, Daniel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417226
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030022
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author Barboza, Luis A.
Vásquez, Paola
Mery, Gustavo
Sanchez, Fabio
García, Yury E.
Calvo, Juan G.
Rivas, Tania
Pérez, María Dolores
Salas, Daniel
author_facet Barboza, Luis A.
Vásquez, Paola
Mery, Gustavo
Sanchez, Fabio
García, Yury E.
Calvo, Juan G.
Rivas, Tania
Pérez, María Dolores
Salas, Daniel
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description The aim of this paper is to infer the effects that change on human mobility had on the transmission dynamics during the first four months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Costa Rica, which could have played a role in delaying community transmission in the country. First, by using parametric and non-parametric change-point detection techniques, we were able to identify two different periods when the trend of daily new cases significantly changed. Second, we explored the association of these changes with data on population mobility. This also allowed us to estimate the lag between changes in human mobility and rates of daily new cases. The information was then used to establish an association between changes in population mobility and the sanitary measures adopted during the study period. Results showed that during the initial two months of the pandemic in Costa Rica, the implementation of sanitary measures and their impact on reducing human mobility translated to a mean reduction of 54% in the number of daily cases from the projected number, delaying community transmission.
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spelling pubmed-96209132022-11-18 The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica Barboza, Luis A. Vásquez, Paola Mery, Gustavo Sanchez, Fabio García, Yury E. Calvo, Juan G. Rivas, Tania Pérez, María Dolores Salas, Daniel Epidemiologia (Basel) Article The aim of this paper is to infer the effects that change on human mobility had on the transmission dynamics during the first four months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Costa Rica, which could have played a role in delaying community transmission in the country. First, by using parametric and non-parametric change-point detection techniques, we were able to identify two different periods when the trend of daily new cases significantly changed. Second, we explored the association of these changes with data on population mobility. This also allowed us to estimate the lag between changes in human mobility and rates of daily new cases. The information was then used to establish an association between changes in population mobility and the sanitary measures adopted during the study period. Results showed that during the initial two months of the pandemic in Costa Rica, the implementation of sanitary measures and their impact on reducing human mobility translated to a mean reduction of 54% in the number of daily cases from the projected number, delaying community transmission. MDPI 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9620913/ /pubmed/36417226 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030022 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Barboza, Luis A.
Vásquez, Paola
Mery, Gustavo
Sanchez, Fabio
García, Yury E.
Calvo, Juan G.
Rivas, Tania
Pérez, María Dolores
Salas, Daniel
The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title_full The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title_fullStr The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title_short The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica
title_sort role of mobility and sanitary measures on the delay of community transmission of covid-19 in costa rica
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417226
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030022
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