Did border closures slow SARS-CoV-2?

MA Shiraef, P Friesen, L Feddern, MA Weiss… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the economic, social, and humanitarian costs of border closures, more than 1000
new international border closures were introduced in response to the 2020–2021 pandemic …

Mode-specific impacts of social distancing measures on the intra-and inter-urban mobility of public transit in Seoul during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Sung, N Dabrundashvili, SY Baek - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Social distancing measures (SDMs) mitigated the spread of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) by reducing human activity and mobility. However, few studies have explored …

Capturing the covid-19 crisis through public health and social measures data science

C Cheng, A Desvars-Larrive, B Ebbinghaus, T Hale… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
In response to COVID-19, governments worldwide are implementing public health and
social measures (PHSM) that substantially impact many areas beyond public health. The …

Disaggregated data on age and sex for the first 250 days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bucharest, Romania

MG Hâncean, MC Ghiță, M Perc, J Lerner, I Oană… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Experts worldwide have constantly been calling for high-quality open-access
epidemiological data, given the fast-evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Restricting human movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: new research avenues in the study of mobility, migration, and citizenship

L Piccoli, J Dzankic, D Ruedin… - International …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Every government in the world introduced restrictions to human mobility–that is, the
movement of persons across and within state borders–in response to the COVID-19 …

The adoption of international travel measures during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive analysis

KA Grépin, M Song, J Piper, CZ Worsnop… - Globalization and Health, 2024 - Springer
Objective To describe the adoption of international travel measures during the first year of
the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods To comprehensively analyze the measures adopted, we …

Covid-forecast-graph: An open knowledge graph for consolidating covid-19 forecasts and economic indicators via place and time

R Zhu, K Janowicz, G Mai, L Cai… - AGILE: GIScience …, 2022 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
The longer the COVID-19 pandemic lasts, the more apparent it becomes that understanding
its social drivers may be as important as understanding the virus itself. One such social …

A thin line: Governmental border communication in times of European crises

VK Brändle, O Eisele - JCMS: Journal of Common Market …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In response to the recent crises in Europe, many governments have tightened their border
controls despite considerable criticism from the EU Commission and civil society. While …

Explaining Support for Border Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exposure, Political Attitudes, or Pandemic Policy Feedback?

E Michel, A Manatschal… - International Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The closing of national borders was one of the most far-reaching policy measures adopted
to limit the spread of the virus during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Despite its …

OVERCOMING INSECURITIES

D Naujoks - Journal of International Affairs, 2022 - JSTOR
A hard look at today's discourses, attitudes, and policies on human mobility often evokes a
bleak picture. i Human mobility––a broad term that includes issues related to immigration …