Open AccessLockdown Effect on COVID-19 Incidence and Death: Iran Experience
Author(s) -
Sajad Delavari,
Zahra Jamali,
Mohsen Bayati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.492
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1938-744X
pISSN - 1935-7893
DOI - 10.1017/dmp.2021.222
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , covid-19 , outbreak , medicine , disease , demography , term (time) , cumulative incidence , closure (psychology) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , surgery , political science , physics , law , optics , transplantation , quantum mechanics , sociology
Countries are trying several policy options for decreasing the incidence and burden of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). One of these strategies is a lockdown, complete closure, to reduce the risk of distributing disease by means of social interactions. This study aimed to analyze the effect of a 3-week lockdown on the mortality and morbidity of COVID-19 in Iran.