Social distancing may have saved more than 59,000 u.s. Lives if implemented two weeks earlier

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/aaft-sdm110620.php

 

News Release 6-Nov-2020
American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

Implementing social distancing, business closures, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the U.S. two weeks sooner, during the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have prevented more than a million cases and saved more than 59,000 lives prior to May 3, 2020, when many state and local governments began relaxing restrictions, according to a new metapopulation modeling study.


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