French researchers wanted to estimate the impact of each health measure. First confinement would have reduced the transmission of the virus by 84%, the 8 p.m.
curfew by 48% and the closure of schools by “only” 15%. Rodolphe Thiébaut, professor of public health at the Bordeaux Population Health1 research center and lead author of the study, deciphers the main lessons to be learned from it. The study was published this Tuesday in the journal Epidemics.