People in US went out less as covid-19 death rates rose in their area

By Chris Stokel-Walker

People successful New York City wearing protective masks during the coronavirus pandemic successful April 2020

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Covid-19 lockdowns and the fig of deaths successful an country were the strongest things to impact question patterns during the pandemic, according to determination information gathered from 837,000 radical successful the US implicit 9 months.

Using information from a measurement app called Cuebiq, which tracked users utilizing the planetary positioning strategy (GPS) awesome connected their telephone for 16 hours a time betwixt January and September 2020, researchers successful Italy and the United States analysed people’s …