Total containment of population and number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in England, Belgium, France and Italy

We analyse the impact of total population containment on the evolution of the growth rate of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by controlling the results by the situation observed in a country that has not applied this measure. We conducted a study of four European countries, England, Belgium, France and Italy, taking Sweden as a control country that did not confine its population. To do so, we use the interrupted time series method. Comparisons of the postintervention linear trends of COVID-19 confirmed cases from England, Belgium and France with that of Sweden show no st... Mehr ...