Study: Social design has worked on limiting the transmission of coronary

The study, published Thursday in the magazine Health Affairs '%, found that the social distance imposed by the government reduced the pace of daily growth of virus cases by about 9% after about three weeks, writes CNN, broadcasts news.net.

Without a measure of social distance, the number of cases of coronarys in the United States. could be 35 times higher, the researchers estimated.

Our “Work illustrates the possible risk of exponential spread in the absence of government interventions, providing important information on strategies for restarting economic activity”, they wrote.

Charles Courtemanche of Kentucky University as well as his colleagues and the University of Louisville and State Georgia appreciated the effects of social distance by comparing the cases of coronary with and without social distance measures.

The decision to close restaurants and bars seemed particularly effective in slowing the spread of the virus, researchers found. The break-up of major events and the closure of public schools did not appear to have affected the reduction of the cases with Covid-19.

Our [results] argue against returning to partial measures, such as closing schools and restrictions on large gatherings”, researchers write.

They noted that their study had certain limitations. The official number of cases, for example, is likely underestimated because they cannot include people who have not received medical services and are infected with the pandemic virus.

Other factors that benefited in reducing the number of cases, according to the study, were “informal encouragement by government officials to set masks or improve hygiene, change business practices and social norms regarding distance”.