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Friday, May 28, 2021
Dear John,
Today we look back on the content we were publishing around this time last year.
Social Distancing Measures Reduced COVID-19 Growth
While we are still in the midst of a global pandemic, it is easier for many to look optimistically toward the future than it was at the end of May 2020.
Notably, Health Affairs published emerging research about social distancing measures to reduce COVID-19 spread in May 2020.
Charles Courtemanche and coauthors found that adoption of state and local government-imposed social distancing measures reduced the daily growth rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases by 5.4 percentage points after one to five days and 9.1 percentage points after sixteen to twenty days.
The paper became the third most-read Health Affairs article in 2020 and was cited in policy reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as in more than 100 journals and more than 200 news stories last year.
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