UHERO study says Hawaii residents not staying home as much as they did at start of pandemic

Are Hawaii residents staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization set out to answer this using cellular location data.

UH researchers Justin Tyndall and Joshua Hu found that mobility data from Safegraph, which is collected from apps that run in the background of smartphones, could measure the willingness of residents to stay home.

The answer? Not to the same extent as last March, when the pandemic started.

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