TY - JOUR AU - Du, Zhanwei AU - Xu, Xiaoke AU - Wang, Lin AU - Fox, Spencer AU - Cowling, Benjamin AU - Galvani, Alison AU - Meyers, Lauren Ancel T1 - Effects of Proactive Social Distancing on COVID-19 Outbreaks in 58 Cities, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 9 SP - 2267 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Cities across China implemented stringent social distancing measures in early 2020 to curb coronavirus disease outbreaks. We estimated the speed with which these measures contained transmission in cities. A 1-day delay in implementing social distancing resulted in a containment delay of 2.41 (95% CI 0.97–3.86) days. KW - COVID-19 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - coronavirus disease KW - epidemiology KW - reproduction number KW - nonpharmaceutical interventions DO - 10.3201/eid2609.201932 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/20-1932_article ER - End of Reference