States slow to implement stay-at-home orders saw higher rates of COVID-19 deaths

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/chop-sst071520.php


News Release 15-Jul-2020
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, governments at the state and local levels issued emergency declarations and shut down schools. With no treatment and no vaccine, this was seen as the best way to stop the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine have conducted one of the first studies to measure the efficacy of social distancing in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that states that were slow to implement such orders saw higher COVID-19 death rates.

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