id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-299501-07echrdh Ould Setti, M. Social Distancing with Movement Restrictions and the Effective Replication Number of COVID-19: Multi-Country Analysis Based on Phone Mobility Data 2020-10-12 .txt text/plain 3237 202 53 title: Social Distancing with Movement Restrictions and the Effective Replication Number of COVID-19: Multi-Country Analysis Based on Phone Mobility Data Background Linking phone mobility data to the effective replication number (Rt) could help evaluation of the impact of social distancing on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread and estimate the time lag (TL) needed for the effect of movement restrictions to appear. Methods We used a time-series analysis to discover how patterns of five indicators of mobility data relate to changes in Rt of 125 countries distributed over three groups based on Rt-mobility correlation. Whether or not this paradoxical effect is due to biased mobility data or to residential community spread, we confirmed the observation with the results of the mixed models regarding SI and Rt. Undoubtedly, also factors other than social distancing and restriction measures, such as the non-compliance with hygiene measures [26] or the lack of public trust in their government [27] , can affect Rt. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint ./cache/cord-299501-07echrdh.txt ./txt/cord-299501-07echrdh.txt