https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/ba01daa33ec96b5f46a11fc755740fa3.pdf 76e3c0c8a241a2edf7e2159964698795 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adoption and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neil M. Ferguson, Katy A M Gaythorpe, Natsuko Imai, Sam Abbott, Sangeeta Bhatia, Sabine van Elsland, Kiesha Prem, Yang Liu Description An account of the resource Background: Several non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been implemented across the world to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Social distancing (SD) interventions applied so far have included school closures, remote working and quarantine. These measures have been shown to have large impacts on pandemic influenza transmission. However, there has been comparatively little examination of such measures for COVID-19. Methods: We examined the existing literature, and collated data, on implementation of NPIs to examine their effects on the COVID-19 pandemic so far. Data on NPIs were collected from official government websites as well as from media sources. Results: Measures such as travel restrictions have been implemented in multiple countries and appears to have slowed the geographic spread of COVID-19 and reduced initial case numbers. We find that, due to the relatively sparse information on the differences with and without interventions, it is difficult to quantitatively assess the efficacy of many interventions. Similarly, whilst the comparison to other pandemic diseases such as influenza can be helpful, there are key differences that could affect the efficacy of similar NPIs. Conclusions: The timely implementation of control measures is key to their success and must strike a balance between early enough application to reduce the peak of the epidemic and ensuring that they can be feasibly maintained for an appropriate duration. Such measures can have large societal impacts and they need to be appropriately justified to the population. As the pandemic of COVID-19 progresses, quantifying the impact of interventions will be a vital consideration for the appropriate use of mitigation strategies. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource nonpharmaceutical interventions, COVID-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15808.1 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wellcome Open Research Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wellcome