Before vaccines, government interventions were more effective at controlling COVID-19 when combined with economic support measures

Dergiades, Theologos, Milas, Costas and Mossialos, Elias ORCID: 0000-0001-8664-9297 (2022) Before vaccines, government interventions were more effective at controlling COVID-19 when combined with economic support measures. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (21 Jul 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Before the development of COVID-19 vaccines to reduce the spread of the virus, US state and federal authorities were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as school and workplace closures, the cancelation of public events, and public information campaigns. In new research, Theologos Dergiades, Costas Milas, Elias Mossialos, and Theodore Panagiotidis look at the effects of these interventions in the early days of the pandemic. They find that, in the absence of a vaccine, when used alongside economic support measures, such interventions were effective in controlling the growth of COVID-19 infections.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Health Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2022 09:33
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115888

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