Assessing the Causal Impact of COVID-19 Related Policies on Outbreak Dynamics: A Case Study in the US
评估新冠相关政策对疫情动态的因果影响:美国案例
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, decision-makers and public authorities have announced various non-pharmaceutical policies. Analyzing the causal impact of these policies in reducing the spread of COVID-19 is important for future policy-making. The main challenge here is the existence of unobserved confounders (e.g., vigilance of residents). Besides, as the confounders may be time-varying during COVID-19 (e.g., vigilance of residents changes in the course of the…