Potential roles of social distancing in mitigating the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in South Korea

On January 20, 2020, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in South Korea. After a rapid outbreak, the number of incident cases has been consistently decreasing since early March; this decrease has been widely attributed to its intensive testing. We report here on the likely role of social distancin...

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Autores principales: Park, Sang Woo, Sun, Kaiyuan, Viboud, Cécile, Grenfell, Bryan T., Dushoff, Jonathan
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Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32511429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.27.20045815
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description On January 20, 2020, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in South Korea. After a rapid outbreak, the number of incident cases has been consistently decreasing since early March; this decrease has been widely attributed to its intensive testing. We report here on the likely role of social distancing in reducing transmission in South Korea. Our analysis suggests that transmission may still be persisting in some regions.
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spelling pubmed-72170702020-06-07 Potential roles of social distancing in mitigating the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in South Korea Park, Sang Woo Sun, Kaiyuan Viboud, Cécile Grenfell, Bryan T. Dushoff, Jonathan medRxiv Article On January 20, 2020, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in South Korea. After a rapid outbreak, the number of incident cases has been consistently decreasing since early March; this decrease has been widely attributed to its intensive testing. We report here on the likely role of social distancing in reducing transmission in South Korea. Our analysis suggests that transmission may still be persisting in some regions. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7217070/ /pubmed/32511429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.27.20045815 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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