{"id":132252,"date":"2020-12-10T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=132252"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T00:38:34","slug":"are-hawaii-residents-staying-home-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/10\/are-hawaii-residents-staying-home-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Hawai\u02bbi residents staying home during COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-residents-mobility.jpg\" alt=\"scenic shots of Honolulu skyline\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-132257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-residents-mobility.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-residents-mobility-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-residents-mobility-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up to 42&#37; of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> residents stayed home when the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in April, according to new information from the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (<abbr title=\"东精影业 Economic Research Organization\">东精影业ERO<\/abbr>). That is more than double the amount of residents who stayed home prior to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/uheroanalytics.shinyapps.io\/Mobility\/\"><abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> dashboard<\/a> offers a detailed picture of people\u2019s movement around <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> during 2020. Using anonymous <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> cellular location data, experts said it can be helpful in gauging the frequency of in-person interactions and the probability of future coronavirus spread.<\/p>\n<p>Data used in the dashboard comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safegraph.com\/\">Safegraph<\/a>, which collects cellular location data from the apps that run in the background of many people\u2019s smartphones. It is anonymous and represents a selective sample of the population. Information regarding the sample and Safegraph\u2019s methodology can be found on its <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.safegraph.com\/docs\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dashboard provides insight into how mobility varies across the state, including variations across neighborhoods, islands, zip codes and census tracts. It also looks at the amount of foot traffic, proxied by the number of smartphones, at locations such as retail stores, hotels, restaurants, gyms, schools, colleges\/universities and hospitals.<\/p>\n<h2>Findings include:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior to the pandemic, about 20&#37; of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> residents stayed home on a given day. This percent rose in March and April and peaked at 42&#37; before declining. Another peak occurred in August (40&#37;), which corresponded with the height of COVID-19 infections in the state. Since then, numbers have again fallen and hovered around 32&#37; at the end of November.<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> residents stay home at slightly higher rates than neighbor island residents.<\/li>\n<li>Stay-at-home rates for residents living around Waik\u012bk\u012b have recently fallen to 25&#37;, below the state level of 32&#37;.<\/li>\n<li>There is no apparent correlation between average income within a neighborhood and the stay-at-home rate for that area.<\/li>\n<li>While retail stores recently experienced 60&#37; of the foot traffic that was typical before the pandemic, foot traffic in hotels is down to 30&#37; of pre-pandemic levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dashboard is regularly updated and contains data through the Thanksgiving holiday. That data suggests that many heeded public health warnings to avoid Thanksgiving gatherings.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> is housed in the <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/are-hawaii-residents-staying-at-home\/\">Read more on <abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> data is helpful in gauging the frequency of in-person interactions and the probability of future coronavirus spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,1411,1417,197,1363,1026,9,343],"class_list":["post-132252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-economics","tag-manoa-research","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132274,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132252\/revisions\/132274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}