On March 12th, Ohio banned gatherings of more than 100 people
On March 15th, Saudi Arabia banned flights to and from hotspot countries
On January 23, Wuhan, China restricted all nonessential domestic travel.
Any example back to December 1, 2019
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By a government
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Mandatory (legally required)
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New (a change to the previous rules)
and was not ....
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A recomendation (CDC recommending canceling gatherings of more than 50 people)
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Private (Google requested its employees transition to working remotely)
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Pre-existing (Don't report that China currently has a ban on flights now, only report if China made the CHANGE on the date you give)
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Q:Who? A: Corresponding author Rex W. Douglass (PhD) @RexDouglass
Q:Where? A: The Machine Learning for Social Science Lab, Center for Peace and Security Studies, University of California San Diego
Q:Why? A: We don't know the answers to two important questions:
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How government interventions changes the rate of growth in COVID19 spread within a community
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What determines when governments will implement some interventions rather than others
Q: How? A: The data and code are release under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
If you use this in analysis or reproduce it in any way, it must be accompanied with the latest citation available here
- Rex W. Douglass. Crowd-sourced COVID-19 Dataset Tracking Involuntary Government Restrictions (TIGR), v1.0 (2020). https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR/.