Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Understanding the effectiveness of government interventions against the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe

  • Mrinank Sharma,
  • Sören Mindermann,
  • Charlie Rogers-Smith,
  • Gavin Leech,
  • Benedict Snodin,
  • Janvi Ahuja,
  • Jonas B. Sandbrink,
  • Joshua Teperowski Monrad,
  • George Altman,
  • Gurpreet Dhaliwal,
  • Lukas Finnveden,
  • Alexander John Norman,
  • Sebastian B. Oehm,
  • Julia Fabienne Sandkühler,
  • Laurence Aitchison,
  • Tomáš Gavenčiak,
  • Thomas Mellan,
  • Jan Kulveit,
  • Leonid Chindelevitch,
  • Seth Flaxman,
  • Yarin Gal,
  • Swapnil Mishra,
  • Samir Bhatt,
  • Jan Markus Brauner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26013-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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European governments control resurging waves of COVID-19 using nonpharmaceutical interventions. Here, the authors estimate the effectiveness of 17 interventions in Europe’s second wave, and analyse differences to the first wave as well as implications for the future of the pandemic.