Deaths, Countermeasures, and Obedience: How Countries' Non-pharmaceutical Measures Have Quelled the COVID-19 Death Toll

Frontiers in Public Health

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Angelo Capodici¹  Davide Gori¹  Jacopo Lenzi¹ 

[1] Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Science, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

关键词: excess mortality;    lockdown;    COVID-19;    stringency index;    mobility trends;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.934309

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

From 2020 onwards, a steep increase in overall deaths was registered in many countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of these deaths were directly associated with the novel coronavirus disease, not all of them can be explained by it (1, 2). To deal with this new biological threat, almost all the world’s countries decided to enforce non-pharmaceutical interventions. These measures have been distilled by The Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) into a single index, called “stringency index” (3), which includes school closures, workplace closures, cancellation of public events, restrictions on public gatherings, closures of public transport, stay-at-home requirements, public information campaigns, restrictions on internal movements, and international travel controls. Certainly, to be effective, restrictions need to be respected by citizens to appreciate their end results; however, stringency provisions were not always welcomed as salvific measures, and as fear of the disease thinned out, discontent of part of the population grew (4).

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