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cord-207242-hb1r2aw7	Ghader, Sepehr	Observed mobility behavior data reveal social distancing inertia	2020-04-30		.txt	text/plain	3090	170	51	The study revealed that statistics related to social distancing, namely trip rate, miles traveled per person, and percentage of population staying at home have all showed an unexpected trend, which we named social distancing inertia. We used daily feeds of mobile device location data, representing movements of more than 100 Million anonymized devices, integrated with COVID-19 case data from John Hopkins University and census population data to monitor the mobility trends in United States and study social distancing behavior 1 . The trends showed that all measures related to social distancing saturated and stopped improving, revealing a phenomenon we name "Social Distancing Inertia." For instance, as observed in Figure 2 the percentage of people staying home nationwide rapidly increased from 20% to 35% at the onset of COVID-19 and then has stagnated at 35% for three weeks as of April 10.	./cache/cord-207242-hb1r2aw7.txt	./txt/cord-207242-hb1r2aw7.txt