Americans who stayed home before they were told to saved lives, study finds
(WorldNews Health)

If you were one of the Americans who decided to self-isolate before you were required to by state or local mandate, good for you. You saved lives. That`s the finding of a study published Monday in the journal `The Lancet: Infectious Diseases,` which used mobile phone data to track how people behaved between January 1 and April 20, a time before widespread calls by state and local officials to stay at home. The study found that individual decisions to stay put in homes, except for necessary outings for food and medical supplies, likely helped slow the spread of coronavirus before state or local stay-at-home orders were implemented by government officials. Fast spread slowed by individual...