1; Christine Herlihy, MS2; Michael A. Tynan3; Gregory Sunshine, JD1,3; Russell F. McCord, JD1,3; Charity Hilton2; Jason Poovey, MS2; Angela K.
Werner, PhD3; Christopher D. Jones, PhD3; Erika B. Fulmer, MHA3; Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, PhD3; Heather Strosnider3; Aaron Potvien, PhD2; Macarena C.
García, DrPH3; Sally Honeycutt, MPH3; Grant Baldwin, PhD3; CDC Public Health Law Program; CDC COVID-19 Response Team, Mitigation Policy Analysis Unit (View author affiliations)Stay-at-home orders are a community mitigation strategy used to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the United States.States and territories that issued mandatory stay-at-home orders experienced decreased population movement in most counties.