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As more countries impose COVID curfews, scientists ask: Do they work?

Advertisement New York: With coronavirus infections rising and a contagious new variant threatening to accelerate the pandemic, France has implemented a stringent 6pm to 6am curfew. Citizens nationwide are sequestered indoors, and businesses must close down. In Quebec, Canadian officials imposed a similar restriction earlier this month, running from 8pm to 5am. It has frayed nerves: Notably, a woman who was walking her boyfriend on a leash at 9pm has argued that this was permitted during the curfew, surely one of the pandemic’s most unexpected moments. Police officers patrol a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where an emergency nighttime curfew has been introduced for the first time since World War II.

Do Curfews Slow the Coronavirus?

A restriction more often used in natural disasters, or to quell unrest, has never been tested against a pathogen like the virus.

Where Campuses Reopened, Covid-19 Cases Spiked. Where Colleges Went Remote, They Declined.

Exposure to COVID-19 explains racial disparities in mortality rates: study

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) Large variations in exposure at home, in the community and at work rather than case-fatality rates may explain the well-documented racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, according to a University of Michigan (UM) study.