The Efficacy of Lockdown Against COVID-19: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis

Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore

doi:10.1007/s40258-020-00596-3

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“…In the wake of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many different governments imposed periods of lockdown, to restrict the movement of the population and thus reduce pressure on healthcare systems. These measures have been mostly effective in that regard (Alfano & Ercolano, 2020). However, they also took a toll on individuals' physical and mental health (Brooks et al, 2020;World Health Organization, 2020), and impacted their lifestyles heavily, in both personal and professional spheres.…”

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COVID-19: A Boon or a Bane for Creativity?

Mercier¹,

Vinchon²,

Pichot³

et al. 2020

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In many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a period of lockdown that impacted individual’s lifestyles, in both professional and personal spheres. New problems and challenges arose, as well as opportunities. Numerous studies have examined the negative effects of lockdown measures, but few have attempted to shine light on the potential positive effects that may come out of these measures. We focused on one particular positive outcome that might have emerged from lockdown: creativity. To this end, this paper compared professional creativity (Pro-C) and everyday creativity (little-c) before and during lockdown, using a questionnaire-based study conducted on a French sample (N = 1266). We expected participants to be more creative during than prior to lockdown, in both professional and everyday spheres. Regarding professional creativity, we did not see any significant differences between the two comparison points, before and during lockdown. Regarding everyday creativity, we observed a significant increase during lockdown. Furthermore, our results suggest that participants with a lower baseline creativity (before lockdown) benefited more from the situation than those with a higher initial baseline creativity. Our results provide new insights on the impact of lockdown and its positive outcomes. These measures may have inarguably negative consequences on the physical and mental health of many, but their positive impact exists as well.

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COVID-19: A Boon or a Bane for Creativity?

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Vinchon²,

Pichot³

et al. 2020

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“…Social distance is a well-established non-pharmaceutical intervention that aims to reduce the spread of infectious diseases 18 . Studies using ITS design consistently reports significant effects of social distancing policies on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.…”

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The effect of lockdown on the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil: evidence from an interrupted time series design

2020

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have implemented social distancing policies with different levels of both enforcement and compliance. We conducted an interrupted time series analysis to estimate the impact of lockdowns on reducing the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in Brazil. Official daily data was collected for four city capitals before and after their respective policies interventions based on a 14 days observation window. We estimated a segmented linear regression to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown measures on COVID-19 incidence and mortality. The initial number of new cases and new deaths had a positive trend prior to policy change. After lockdown, a statistically significant decrease in new confirmed cases was found in all state capitals. We also found evidence that lockdown measures were likely to reverse the trend of new daily deaths due to COVID-19. In São Luís, we observed a reduction of 37.85% while in Fortaleza the decrease was 33.4% on the average difference in daily deaths if the lockdown had not been implemented. Similarly, the intervention diminished mortality in Recife by 21.76% and Belém by 16.77%. Social distancing policies can be useful tools in flattening the epidemic curve.

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“…Mobility has not stop at all but reduced and that trend is steadily growing as time passes away. As for the results of another countries [7] the lapse of time from lockdown implementation to effectiveness in reducing rate of contagion is within a month. Taking that into account and reviewing Figure 1 again the first month was successful on that purpose.…”

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Sars-Cov-2 in Argentina: Lockdown, Mobility, and Contagion

Larrosa

2020

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There is a debate in Argentina about the effectiveness of mandatory lockdown measures in containing COVID-19 that lasts five months making it one of the longest in the World. The population effort to comply the lockdown has been decreasing over time given the economic and social costs that it entails. We contributes by analyzing the Argentinian case through information of mobility and contagion given answers to recurrent questions on these topics. This paper aims to fill the gap in the literature by assessing the effects of lockdown measures and the regional relaxation on the numbers of rate of new infections. We also respond to issues of internal political discussion on regional contagion and the effect of marches and unexpected crowd events.We use pool, fixed and random effects panel data modeling and Granger causality tests identifying relations between mobility and contagion. Our results show that lockdown in Argentina has been effective in reducing the mobility but not in way that reduces the rate of contagion. Strict lockdown seems to be effective in short periods of time and by extend it without complementary measures loss effectiveness. Contagion rate seems to be discretely displaced in time and resurging amidst slowly increasing in mobility.

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The Efficacy of Lockdown Against COVID-19: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis

Cited by 430 publications

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COVID-19: A Boon or a Bane for Creativity?

COVID-19: A Boon or a Bane for Creativity?

The effect of lockdown on the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil: evidence from an interrupted time series design

Sars-Cov-2 in Argentina: Lockdown, Mobility, and Contagion

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