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News Scan for Aug 31, 2020 | CIDRAP – CIDRAP
US cell phone data: Staying home amid lockdowns may stem COVID-19
US counties with large declines in cell phone activity at workplaces, transit stations, and stores and concomitant increases in home activity during COVID-19 lockdowns had lower rates of coronavirus infections 5, 10, and 15 days later, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The researchers made 22,124 to 83,745 daily observations of cell phone location data from 949 to 2,740 counties, depending on data a…
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