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Background: The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was first detected in the UnitedStates in January 2020. To curb the spread of the disease in mid-March,different states issued mandatory stay-at-home (SAH) orders. Thesenonpharmaceutical interventions were mandated based on prior experiences, suchas the 1918 influenza epidemic. Hence, we decided to study the impact ofrestrictions on mobility on reducing COVID-19 transmission. Methods: Wedesigned an ecological time series study with our exposure variable as Mobilitypatterns in the state of Maryland for March- December 2020 and our outcomevariable as the COVID-19 hospitalizations for the same period. We built anExtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) ensemble machine learning model andregressed the lagged COVID-19 hospitalizations with Mobility volume fordifferent regions of Maryland. Results: We found an 18% increase in COVID-19hospitalizations when mobility was increased by a factor of five, similarly a43% increase when mobility was further increased by a factor of ten.Conclusion: The findings of our study demonstrated a positive linearrelationship between mobility and the incidence of COVID-19 cases. Thesefindings are partially consistent with other studies suggesting the benefits ofmobility restrictions. Although more detailed approach is needed to preciselyunderstand the benefits and limitations of mobility restrictions as part of aresponse to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Influence of Mobility Restrictions on Transmission of COVID-19 in the state of Maryland -- the USA