This finding suggests that the implementation of COVID-19 mitigation strategies has provided people worldwide with increased opportunities to sleep, which may enhance the response of the immune system to viral pathogens. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a 13.7 minute increase in estimated sleep duration when comparing March 2019 and March 2020 (95% CI 13.1-14.3, P<.001) and an increase of 22.3 minutes when comparing April 2019 and April 2020 (95% CI 21.5-23.1, P<.001).Ĭonclusions: The average estimated sleep duration increased sharply in the months after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, people residing in Seoul had the shortest estimated sleep duration (mean 6 hours 28 minutes, SE 11.6 minutes) and those residing in Stockholm had the longest estimated sleep duration (mean 7 hours 34 minutes, SE 9.9 minutes). The average age of the users in the sample was 35 years (SE 11 years). Results: Among the 2,871,037 observations, 957,022 (33.3%) were from users in London 549,151 (19.1%) were from users in Los Angeles 846,527 (29.5%) were from users in New York City 251,113 (8.7%) were from users in Seoul and 267,224 (9.3%) were from users in Stockholm. We compared within-subject estimated sleep duration before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using generalized linear mixed models.
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