Mobility and behavior-based ex-post evaluation of effectiveness of COVID-19 measures

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have imposed contact limiting measures, such as working from home, closing restaurants and cultural institutions, closing public buildings, limiting gatherings and visits, and imposing a curfew. These contact limiting measures had an enormous impact on people's social lives, work and education. The team of researchers from different fields - social sciences, epidemic modeling and public health - will evaluate the effectiveness of contact limiting measures by looking at 2 data sources: the number of trips per week between municipalities in the Netherlands during the pandemic, and self-reported social distancing behaviour. The results are important both for our scientific understanding of epidemics and for informing policy decisions in future pandemic emergencies.