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Shelter-in-place orders prevented as many as 370,000 deaths, Health Affairs finds

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Shelter-in-place orders prevented as many as 370,000 deaths, Health Affairs finds Healthcare Dive Shelter-in-place orders saved as many as 250,000 to 370,000 lives, according to a new study in the journal Health Affairs, and may have helped 840,000 hospitalizations be avoided. The study analyzed data from March to mid-May, when 42 states and the District of Columbia had shelter-in-place orders in effect. The orders caused the daily mortality rate from COVID-19 to decline by 6.1%, while hospitalization rates declined by 8.4%, six weeks after the orders were enacted. READ MORE

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