Timothy J Judson, Shiqi Zhang, Christina P Lindan, Derek Boothroyd, Kevin Grumbach, Jenna Bollyky, Hannah Sample, Beatrice Huang, Manisha Desai, Ralph Gonzales, Yvonne Maldonado, George Rutherford
In an effort to decrease transmission during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials encouraged masking, social distancing, and working from home, and restricted travel. However, many studies of the effectiveness of these measures had significant methodologic limitations. In this analysis, we used data from the TrackCOVID study, a longitudinal cohort study of a population-based sample of 3,846 adults in the San Francisco Bay Area, to evaluate the association between self-reported protective behaviors including masking, physical distancing, travel and working outside the home, and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection...
July 29, 2023: Annals of Epidemiology