There are many precautions we take every day to stop the spread of COVID. We have been diligent for almost a year in washing our hands, wearing face masks in public, and trying to keep six feet between us and someone who is not in our household. But on a larger scale, different countries have taken different approaches to mitigating the virus, and even in the US, precautions have varied from state to state. Complete shutdowns, business shutdowns and mask mandates are just a few protocols implemented around the world to try to get the virus under control. Since we have never dealt with anything identical to COVID in our lifetime, there has been some guesswork about the best way to keep people safe. Now, a recent study from Stanford University has discovered that two measures may not stop the spread of COVID as much as we thought.
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For the study, which was published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, researchers examined the growth of COVID in ten countries to determine how beneficial different precautions appear to be, and specifically looked at more restrictive measures such as closure and closure. of affairs.
Researchers compare COVID cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the US – all of which have imposed mandatory stay-at-home orders and business closures – with South Korea and Sweden, which have applied only voluntary personal precautions. .
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After comparing the countries with more restrictive measures with countries with less restrictive measures, it was clear to the researchers that there was’ no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] about growth in cases in any country. ‘
Their findings suggest that mandatory barriers do not stop the spread significantly more than personal measures such as social distance and mask wear. “We do not doubt the role of all public health interventions or of coordinated communication on the epidemic, but we do not find an added benefit of stay-at-home orders and closures of cases,” the authors concluded.
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Sweden’s approach included ‘guidelines for social distance, discouragement of international and domestic travel and a ban on large gatherings’, while South Korea ‘relies on intensive investment in testing, contact detection and isolation of infected cases and close contacts’ , according to Stanford research. Even without more restrictive measures, Sweden and South Korea have had some of the lowest COVID cases for many of the pandemics.
As a result, the researchers concluded that ‘similar decline in growth is possible with less restrictive interventions’ similar to those implemented by these two countries.
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A study published in the journal Binnelug in October looked at 318 outbreaks in China in which three or more cases were identified. The researchers divided the outbreaks into six categories: homes, transportation, food, entertainment, shopping and more – and found that people were 19 times more likely to get the virus at home. Similarly, research from the Chapel Hill of the University of North Carolina has determined that your home is the most common location for COVID-19 transmission.
This is probably why Stanford researchers noted that ‘it is possible that stay-at-home orders can facilitate the transfer if it increases contact between people where the transfer is effective, such as enclosed spaces.’ They cite a study from November published in the journal Science which identified an increase in broadcasts and cases during a stay-at-home order in Hunan, China, as a result of intra-domestic transfers.
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