2.2.4. Mitigation Strategies

Participants were asked about COVID-19 mitigation strategies for both individual behaviors (wearing of a facemask, consulting a health care provider if you feel sick, avoiding/limiting indoor public spaces, avoiding outdoor spaces, avoiding large gatherings, avoiding contact with people at high risk, and limiting errands requiring public places), and public health measures (closure of schools, closures of all shops not considered essential, non-essential workers stay home, and people over the age of 70 stay home). Five response options were provided ranging from not at all effective, slightly effective, moderately effective, very effective, to extremely effective. Responses were collapsed into three categories, not at all effective (not effective at all), moderately effective (slightly effective, moderately effective), and highly effective (very effective, extremely effective) for analysis.
