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A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).

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The COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) as mentioned in this paper is a dataset that addresses the need for continuously updated, readily usable and comparable information on policy measures.
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COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented government action around the world. We introduce the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), a dataset that addresses the need for continuously updated, readily usable and comparable information on policy measures. From 1 January 2020, the data capture government policies related to closure and containment, health and economic policy for more than 180 countries, plus several countries' subnational jurisdictions. Policy responses are recorded on ordinal or continuous scales for 19 policy areas, capturing variation in degree of response. We present two motivating applications of the data, highlighting patterns in the timing of policy adoption and subsequent policy easing and reimposition, and illustrating how the data can be combined with behavioural and epidemiological indicators. This database enables researchers and policymakers to explore the empirical effects of policy responses on the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as on economic and social welfare.

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COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines.

TL;DR: It is found that, after accounting for meteorological variations, lockdown events have reduced the population-weighted concentration of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter levels by about 60% and 31% in 34 countries, with mixed effects on ozone.
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Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries.

TL;DR: Physical distancing interventions were associated with reductions in the incidence of covid-19 globally and might support policy decisions as countries prepare to impose or lift physical distancing measures in current or future epidemic waves.
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COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0).

TL;DR: The initial public release of a large hand-coded dataset of over 13,000 policy announcements made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is presented, which shows the quick acceleration of the adoption of costly policies across countries beginning in mid-March 2020 through 24 May 2020.
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COVID-19 open source data sets: a comprehensive survey

TL;DR: This survey is motivated by the open source efforts that can be mainly categorized as (a) COVID-19 diagnosis from CT scans, X-ray images, and cough sounds, (b) CO VID-19 case reporting, transmission estimation, and prognosis from epidemiological, demographic, and mobility data, (c) COvid-19 emotional and sentiment analysis from social media, and (d) knowledge-based discovery and semantic analysis from the collection of scholarly articles covering COVID.
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