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As state and local policymakers and politicians made the decision to enact stay-at-home orders last March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a recent study found that more stringent public health measures put in place directly correlated with lower virus case numbers during the first two months of the pandemic.

New research published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine found that in the State of Florida, and also at the local level in Miami-Dade County, higher stringency efforts during the first two months of the pandemic kept overall transmission numbers low.