Social distancing to slow the US COVID-19 epidemic: Longitudinal pretest–posttest comparison group study

• Mark J. Siedner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark J. Siedner, Guy Harling

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msiedner@mgh.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Africa Health Research Institute, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3506-842X

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• Guy Harling ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark J. Siedner, Guy Harling

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, University College London, London, United Kingdom, MRC/Wits Agincourt Unit, Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6604-491X

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• Zahra Reynolds,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rebecca F. Gilbert,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1761-4626

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• Sebastien Haneuse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4963-0655

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• Atheendar S. Venkataramani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7612-8903

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• Alexander C. Tsai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-7917

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