id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-353996-slnyun4l Baumgartner, M. T. Social distancing and movement constraint as the most likely factors for COVID-19 outbreak control in Brazil 2020-05-08 .txt text/plain 6874 350 52 In spite of all limitations of such a large-scale approach, our results underline that climatic conditions are likely weak limiting factors for the spread of the new coronavirus, and the circulation of people in the cityand country-level are the most responsible factors for the early outbreak of COVID-19 in Brazil. We studied the exponential growth of time series data for over 460 cities with reported cases of infections by the new coronavirus, considering the effect of the environment, socioeconomic indicators, movement of people across the country, and social distancing. Our results show that the early spread of the new coronavirus in Brazil was mitigated by social distancing in some regions, but was also positively related to the size of the population of cities and how people moved across them. . https://doi.org/10.1101 In Great China, the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak expanded fast throughout the country and the majority of early cases reported outside of its origin had admitted recent travels to Wuhan, the core of the disease spread (Chinazzi et al., 2020) . ./cache/cord-353996-slnyun4l.txt ./txt/cord-353996-slnyun4l.txt