The global viralization of policies to contain the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of school closures and first reported cases

• José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jjose.ignacio.nazif-munoz@usherbrooke.ca

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Canada, Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8944-5182

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• Sebastián Peña,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile

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• Youssef Oulhote

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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