Fig. 3.

Social distancing and COVID-19 incidence.

Note: Panel A shows the number of visits (normalized to one) to SafeGraph POIs for each week since January 27, 2020 for Republican counties and Democratic counties separately. Panel B is analogous but plots cumulative, end-of-week values for confirmed COVID-19 cases (per 100,000 people) and confirmed COVID-19 deaths (per 1,000,000 people). Republican counties are defined to be those whose 2016 Republican vote share is greater than the median vote share (66.4%) across the counties in our sample. Counties covering New York City, Kansas City, and Alaska are excluded from these counts, as noted in Appendix A.1.1.