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. 2021 Aug;51(8):e13599.
doi: 10.1111/eci.13599. Epub 2021 Jun 18.

Challenges in determining causality: An ongoing critique of Bendavid et al's 'Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19'

Lonni Besançon  1 , Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz  2 , Emilio Zanetti Chini  3 , Hermann Fuchs  4 , Antoine Flahault  5
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Challenges in determining causality: An ongoing critique of Bendavid et al's 'Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19'

Lonni Besançon et al. Eur J Clin Invest. 2021 Aug.
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Stringency Index of all countries included by the authors until the maximum cut‐off date as specific in the supplementary materials of the original manuscript. England is not included as OurWorldInData only provided Stringency Index data for the United Kingdom. Image source: OurWorldInData
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Containment and Health Index of all countries included by the authors until the maximum cut‐off date as specific in the supplementary materials of the original manuscript. England is not included as OurWorldInData only provided Containment and Health Index data for the United Kingdom. Image source: OurWorldInData
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