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Jan Brauner , Sören Mindermann , Mrinank Sharma , David Johnston , John Salvatier , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Anna B. Stephenson , Gavin Leech , George Altman , Vladimir Mikulik , Alexander John Norman , Joshua Teperowski Monrad , Tamay Besiroglu , Hong Ge , Meghan A. Hartwick , Yee Whye Teh , Leonid Chindelevitch , Yarin Gal , Jan Kulveit ·

YOU? · · 2020 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd9338 · OA: W3111564425

How to hold down transmission Early in 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission was curbed in many countries by imposing combinations of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Sufficient data on transmission have now accumulated to discern the effectiveness of individual interventions. Brauner et al. amassed and curated data from 41 countries as input to a model to identify the individual nonpharmaceutical interventions that were the most effective at curtailing transmission during the early pandemic. Limiting gatherings to fewer than 10 people, closing high-exposure businesses, and closing schools and universities were each more effective than stay-at-home orders, which were of modest effect in slowing transmission. Science , this issue p. eabd9338