Table 2.

Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient of policy indicators and the Stringency Index against five different measures of pandemic severity in the young population based on median country age.

Index	Description	Log Mean Mortality Rate	Log Time to Peak (Days)	Log Peak Deaths/100,000 Pop.	Log Cumulative Deaths after Peak/100,000 Pop.	Log Slope of Descending Curve/Slope of Ascending Curve
C1	School Closing	−0.600	−0.306	−0.620 *	−0.744 *	0.297
C2	Workplace Closing	−0.279	0.000	−0.018	−0.009	0.845 *
C3	Cancel Public Events	−0.569	−0.351	−0.800 *	−0.790 *	0.200
C4	Gathering Restrictions	−0.211	0.241	0.349	0.118	0.391
C5	Close Public Transport	−0.340	−0.295	−0.317	−0.391	0.317
C6	Stay At Home Requirement	−0.360	−0.385	−0.342	−0.273	0.409
C7	Restriction on Internal Movement	−0.400	−0.051	−0.155	−0.227	0.627 *
C8	International Travel Controls	−0.439	0.153	−0.403	−0.352	0.334
E1	Income Support	−0.014	0.172	0.718 *	0.633 *	0.256
E2	Debt/Contract Relief	−0.060	0.130	0.501	0.431	0.514
E3	Fiscal Measures	0.395	0.399	0.578	0.464	−0.073
E4	International Support	0.630 *	0.547	0.341	0.390	0.305
H1	Public Information Campaigns	−0.156	0.073	0.439	0.364	0.376
H2	Testing Policy	0.258	0.674 *	0.268	0.270	0.642 *
H3	Contact Tracing	0.270	0.399	0.790 *	0.480	0.308
H4	Emergency Investment in Healthcare	0.498	0.242	0.395	0.633 *	0.477
H5	Investment in Vaccines	0.630 *	0.547	0.341	0.560	0.431
SI	Stringency Index	−0.536	−0.184	−0.236	−0.382	0.518

* Indicates statistical significance; p-value < 0.05. The key to visual interpretation for the table has been described in Figure 2. A more saturated green represents a stronger association to a good outcome, and darker red represents a stronger association to a bad outcome.