Does city lockdown prevent the spread of COVID-19? New evidence from the synthetic control method
Abstract Background At 10 a.m. on January 23, 2020 Wuhan, China imposed a 76-day travel lockdown on its 11 million residents in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. This lockdown represented the largest quarantine in the history of public health and provides us with an opportunity to critically exa...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Global Health Research and Policy |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-021-00204-4 |