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Cho JY, Prakash T, Lam W, Seegert N, Samore MH, Pavia AT, Nelson RE, Chaiyakunapruk N. Understanding macroeconomic indicators affected by COVID-19 containment policies in the United States: a scoping review. HEALTH AFFAIRS SCHOLAR 2025; 3:qxaf045. [PMID: 40190702 PMCID: PMC11970021 DOI: 10.1093/haschl/qxaf045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2024] [Revised: 02/14/2025] [Accepted: 03/04/2025] [Indexed: 04/09/2025]
Abstract
Containment policies were essential in controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, but they also introduced significant economic challenges. This scoping review aimed to examine the macroeconomic indicators used to assess COVID-19 closure and containment policies in the United States. We reviewed 42 eligible studies from 4516 records identified across PubMed, Web of Science, and EconLit. These studies explored various economic impacts, focusing on employment, labor market indicators, consumer spendings, etc., primarily using publicly available sources. During the pandemic, high-frequency data (eg, mobility and card transactions) became newly accessible and played a key role in evaluating the real-time effects of mitigation policies. Our review summarizes macroeconomic indicators investigated and provides researchers and policymakers with a list of data sources for assessment of economic impacts in the future. This review emphasizes the need for comprehensive evaluations to balance public health measures with economic considerations in future pandemic responses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jeong-Yeon Cho
- Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
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- Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States
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- Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
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- David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
- IDEAS Center, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
- IDEAS Center, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
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- Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
- IDEAS Center, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States
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Mo H, Zhou MF, Lao EPL, Chan KK, Lai ON, Ho MI, Wong KW, Ho KM, Sio KT, Fong KL, Zhao YH, Cheang SI, Lo IL. The effects of Chinese proprietary medicine and vaccination on patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study in Macao. Chin Med 2024; 19:15. [PMID: 38263035 PMCID: PMC10807168 DOI: 10.1186/s13020-023-00877-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND COVID-19 is continuing to ravage globally and has resulted in a huge health and financial burden. Chinese proprietary medicines, such as Lianhua Qingwen (LHQW) and Huoxiang Zhengqi (HXZQ) capsules, have been recommended for non-high-risk patients with COVID-19 in China. Based on this, we described the baseline information, using status of LHQW and HXZQ capsules and inoculation history of quarantined patients in the second half of 2022 in Macao. Additionally, we analyzed the underlying association among medicines administration, vaccination and COVID-19 indices, in order to explore novel clues for the regular control and prevention of local epidemic situation in the future. METHODS A total of 976 patients in Macao quarantine hotels from June to August 2022 were included in the present study, of which, 857 subjects were followed-up for prognosis evaluation. During quarantine, the baseline demographic information, including sex, age, BMI, occupation and personal habits were collected. Additionally, the inoculation history, medicine employment status and cycle threshold (Ct) values were also reported. We interviewed the patients for collection of their symptoms at the beginning and end of quarantine, as well as prognostic ones. Basic statistical description of baseline information, vaccination history and medication were displayed. Chi-squared test or with continuous correction test was employed for comparison of dichotomous data between two or multiple groups. Binary logistic regression was applied to reveal the correlation between potential risk factors and Ct values or prognosis symptoms. We also used Cox regression model to identify the effect of different types of vaccine products on Ct value altering rate. RESULTS Patients who were female (52.0%), engaged in service industry (31.8%), from Macao native (65.8%), never took physical exercises (33.6%) and preferred irritated diet (59.5%) enjoyed more dominant proportions. Over 80% of participants were inoculated and 74.6% of them chose inactivated COVID-19 vaccine produced by China National Biotech Group (CNBG). Participants used LHQW capsules accounted for 92.1% and the duration of medicating lasted for one to two weeks. All of the reported symptoms were significantly ameliorated after quarantine and the duration of quarantine was concentrated on 21 days. People with different age, sex, occupation and region had different choices of HXZQ administration and vaccination. Additionally, middle dose (4-5 boxes) of LHQW capsules exhibited evidently negative association with positive Ct values (adjusted, - 0.037 ± 0.19, p = 0.04). Two doses of CNBG and one dose of mRNA vaccine had obvious protective effect on reducing Ct positive rate (p = 0.041). Meanwhile, symptoms after quarantine were significantly positive correlated with those in prognosis (adjusted, 1.38 ± 0.18, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION Our study found that the administration of LHQW capsules was beneficial for Ct value turning negative, meanwhile, certain mixed inoculation may be the promoting factor to reduce the positive rate of Ct value. These findings provide data basis for the Chinese proprietary medicine treatment and mixed vaccination applying for prevention and control of local COVID-19 epidemic in the future.
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- Hui Mo
- Government of Macau SAR-Health Bureau, Edifício da Administração dos Serviços de Saúde, Rua Nova à Guia, no. 39, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Government of Macau SAR-Health Bureau, Edifício da Administração dos Serviços de Saúde, Rua Nova à Guia, no. 39, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- Chinese Medicine Anti-Epidemic Team of the Health Bureau, Macao SAR, 999078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR, 999078, China.
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- Government of Macau SAR-Health Bureau, Edifício da Administração dos Serviços de Saúde, Rua Nova à Guia, no. 39, Macao SAR, 999078, China.
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- Government of Macau SAR-Health Bureau, Edifício da Administração dos Serviços de Saúde, Rua Nova à Guia, no. 39, Macao SAR, 999078, China.
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Wang Y, Zhong C, Gao Q, Cabrera-Arnau C. Understanding internal migration in the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using twitter data. URBAN INFORMATICS 2022; 1:15. [PMID: 36466001 PMCID: PMC9705444 DOI: 10.1007/s44212-022-00018-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected internal migration patterns and may last beyond the pandemic. It raises the need to monitor the migration in an economical, effective and timely way. Benefitting from the advancement of geolocation data collection techniques, we used near real-time and fine-grained Twitter data to monitor migration patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, dated from January 2019 to December 2021. Based on geocoding and estimating home locations, we proposed five indices depicting migration patterns, which are demonstrated by applying an empirical study at national and local authority scales to the UK. Our findings point to complex social processes unfolding differently over space and time. In particular, the pandemic and lockdown policies significantly reduced the rate of migration. Furthermore, we found a trend of people moving out of large cities to the nearby rural areas, and also conjunctive cities if there is one, before and during the peak of the pandemic. The trend of moving to rural areas became more significant in 2020 and most people who moved out had not returned by the end of 2021, although large cities recovered more quickly than other regions. Our results of monthly migration matrixes are validated to be consistent with official migration flow data released by the Office for National Statistics, but have finer temporal granularity and can be updated more frequently. This study demonstrates that Twitter data is highly valuable for migration trend analysis despite the biases in population representation.
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- Yikang Wang
- Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK
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