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Table 4 Mean number of county policies, by policy domain and state (January-March 2021)

From: The U.S. COVID-19 County Policy Database: a novel resource to support pandemic-related research

Policy domain (range)

California

Louisiana

Mississippi

New Jersey

New York

Texas

Utah

Overall

Containment/closure (0–15)

13.4

13.9

5.5

14.0

14.1

10.6

10.5

12.1

Economic response (0–2)

1.5

1.2

2.0

1.3

1.1

1.4

1.6

1.4

Public health (0–5)

5.0

4.4

3.5

5.0

4.9

4.9

4.7

4.8

Total number of policies (0–22) ± SD

19.8 ± 1.7

19.5 ± 1.2

11.0 ± 3.4

20.3 ± 1.0

20.1 ± 1.5

16.9 ± 1.5

16.8 ± 2.2

18.2 ± 2.5

Number of counties

34

29

4

11

14

50

29

171

  1. Note: N = 171 counties in 7 states. SD Standard deviation. For counties with missing data on a given policy, data from state policies were used to infer local county policies