Reply to John Spry on Stay-at-Home Orders and COVID-19 Hospitalizations

by Soumya Sen, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Archelle Georgiou

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Dr. Soumya Sen is an Associate Professor and a McKnight Presidential Fellow in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson…

Dr. Pinar Karaca-Mandic is the C. Arthur Williams Jr. Professor of Healthcare Risk Management in the Department of Finance, Carlson School o…

Dr. Archelle Georgiou is the Chief Health Officer for Starkey Hearing Technologies. She is also an Executive-in-Residence at the Medical Ind…

Abstract

This short note is a response to John Spry’s critique of our research letter “Association of Stay-at-Home Orders With COVID-19 Hospitalizations in 4 States,” which appeared in Journal of the American Medical Association in 2020. We also provide an example from a state that did not have a stay-at-home order that is consistent with the findings of our original paper.

This article is a response to Comment on Sen, Karaca-Mandic, and Georgiou on Stay-at-Home Orders and COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Four States by John A. Spry (EJW, September 2020).