The report looked at lockdown measures in other countries, including China, South Korea, Italy, Iran and France.
The study looked at 1,717 local, regional and national policies, including travel restrictions, the cancellation of events, the closing of schools, retail and religious gatherings, quarantines and other emergency declarations, from early April.
Dieckhaus expects the USA will be able to decouple economic activity and case transmission as some businesses restructure office settings to promote social distancing, schedule constant disinfecting and require a mask., found such lockdown methods may have prevented more than 3 million deaths across 11 European countries.
"The lockdown measures have served an important role in our society to prevent and mitigate unabated spread of the virus probably saving many millions of lives in doing so," said Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "We have yet to experience this particular novel coronavirus during a season when it's usually most transmissible, and that’s a scary thought," he said.
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