Comment on Sen, Karaca-Mandic, and Georgiou on Stay-at-Home Orders and COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Four States

John A. Spry

Econ Journal Watch, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 270–278

Abstract: The JAMA research letter “Association of Stay-at-Home Orders with COVID-19 Hospitalizations in 4 States” fails placebo tests. Actual cumulative COVID-19 hospitalizations fall below the projections from univariate exponential time trend models in states with and without stay-at-home orders. No conclusions can be drawn about the association of stay-at-home orders with COVID-19 hospitalizations from the evidence in the letter.

Keywords: pandemic; coronavirus; exponential growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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