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Which are the best pandemic policies? Data trackers are trying to judge

Thousands of scientists and volunteers have charted the way governments have responded to COVID-19.
  1. Quirin Schiermeier
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of scientists and volunteers, across dozens of teams, have been tracking in detail the interventions that governments have adopted to curb viral spread — from closing restaurants to mandating the wearing of masks. They hope to deduce which policies are most effective.

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Nature 591, 189 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00590-2

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  • Correction 08 March 2021: An earlier version of the picture caption to this article incorrectly stated that Klimek helped to build pandemic tracker datasets; he helped to analyse them.

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  1. Haug, N. et al. Nature Hum. Behav. 4, 1303–1312 (2020).

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