id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-316842-mnt12ot2 Medline, MPH Evaluating the Efficacy of Stay-At-Home Orders: Does Timing Matter? 2020-06-03 .txt text/plain 2754 165 58 RESULTS: For US states and countries, a larger number of days between the first reported case and stay-at-home mandates was associated with a longer time to reach the peak daily case and death counts. CONCLUSIONS: Our study supports the potential beneficial effect of earlier stay-at-home mandates, by shortening the time to peak case and death counts for US states and countries. Specific terms used in our online searches included 'date of stay-at-home orders 2020,' 'non-pharmaceutical interventions COVID-19,' and 'stay-at-home mandates.' We conducted a search for each respective country and US state analyzed in the study. For both our country and US state-level-data, a larger number of days between the first reported case and the stay-at-home mandate was associated with a longer time to reach both the peak of daily cases and deaths for each respective region (Tables 1a and 1b is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. ./cache/cord-316842-mnt12ot2.txt ./txt/cord-316842-mnt12ot2.txt