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cord-343414-2embihmf	Wagner, Aaron B.	Social distancing merely stabilized COVID‐19 in the US	2020-07-13		.txt	text/plain	4239	229	59	Using the earlier of K‐12 school closures and restaurant closures, by state, to define the start of the intervention, and considering daily confirmed cases through April 23rd, 2020, we find that social distancing is associated with a statistically‐significant (p < 0.01) reduction in the doubling rate for all states except for Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, when controlling for false discovery, with the doubling rate averaged across the states falling from 0.302 (0.285, 0.320) days(‐1) to 0.010 (‐0.007, 0.028) days(‐1). We focus on estimating the doubling rate, β, measured in inverse days, of new infections across the fifty states and the District of Columbia 1 , both before and after the intervention. This study finds that the social distancing measures enacted in the US are associated with a significant decrease in the doubling rate of COVID-19 infections.	./cache/cord-343414-2embihmf.txt	./txt/cord-343414-2embihmf.txt