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Comment
. 2020 Nov 5:7:580361.
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.580361. eCollection 2020.

Commentary: Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

Christof Kuhbandner  1 , Stefan Homburg  2
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Commentary: Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

Christof Kuhbandner et al. Front Med (Lausanne). .
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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; epidemiology; mitigation strategies; non-pharmaceutical interventions.

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(A) Estimate of the effective reproduction number by Flaxman et al. [(3), Figure 1]. The authors assumed R(t) to be constant before 14 March and after 23 March. Changes were allowed only on the four dates where NPIs became effective. (B) Growth factor of daily deaths. Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/891710/2020-06-11_COVID-19_UK_deaths_time_series.csv. Moving averages, 7 days. Retrieved 14 June 2020. Given daily deaths dt, growth factors were computed as dt/dt−1. Note that if daily deaths show exponential growth, any moving average will also show exponential growth.
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  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe.
    Flaxman S, Mishra S, Gandy A, Unwin HJT, Mellan TA, Coupland H, Whittaker C, Zhu H, Berah T, Eaton JW, Monod M; Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team; Ghani AC, Donnelly CA, Riley S, Vollmer MAC, Ferguson NM, Okell LC, Bhatt S. Flaxman S, et al. Nature. 2020 Aug;584(7820):257-261. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7. Epub 2020 Jun 8. Nature. 2020. PMID: 32512579

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