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. 2020 Aug;30(8):1544-1545.
doi: 10.1111/sms.13706.

(Indoor) isolation, stress, and physical inactivity: Vicious circles accelerated by COVID-19?

Johannes Burtscher  1 , Martin Burtscher  2 , Grégoire P Millet  1
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(Indoor) isolation, stress, and physical inactivity: Vicious circles accelerated by COVID-19?

Johannes Burtscher et al. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Anxiety; COVID-19; exercise; isolation; outdoor; stress.

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Frequentation of parks on two sundays during the COVID‐19 epidemic. Mobility (visits and length of stay) related to parks according to Google`s COVID‐19 Community Mobility Reports (https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/) for European countries, for which data were available. Data reflect daily snapshots as of 29.3.2020 and of 5.4.2020, accessed 4.4.2020, 11.00 am and 10.4.2020, 12 am, respectively (percentages as compared to a baseline for the country and the corresponding day of the week (median value across the 5‐week period 3.1. to 6.2.2020). Map created with https://mapchart.net
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