?Coronavirus in Latin America. The effects of government measures along different phases of the pandemic?

JUAN CABRERA; MARÍA CELESTE RATTO; JUAN MARTÍN AZERRAT; DANIELA ZACHARÍAS

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Workshop; Public Policy, Opinions, Behavior, and Health Outcomesduring the COVID Pandemic Workshop Part II; 2020

Texas A&M University European Union Center University of São Paulo Department of Political Science Vienna University of Economics and Business

Covid-19 pandemic has left more than 30 million confirmed cases and one million deaths. Thechallenge has been enormous, different governments have adopted diverse measures in order to reducethe number of new infections and deaths, and the consequences in economic terms. The scenarios havebeen changing and successful strategies have to change because they loose effectiveness or becameobsolete. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects that different kinds of measures taken by LatinAmerican governments had on the daily new cases. The main hypothesis of this work is that the effectof the government responses to Covid-19 has varied throughout the different phases of the pandemic.The countries analyzed were Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Peru, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. A TimeSeries Cross Section analysis was performed, to allows studying the evolution of the number of dailycases over time and by country. The period of time studied is from the day the first case of coronavirus was registered in a country, until September 14, 2020. We used data from COVID-19 Dashboarddatabase of Johns Hopkins University, and the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Trackerdataset.