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COVID-19 preventive measures showing an unintended decline in infectious diseases in Taiwan

Most of the communicable diseases have contact, airborne and/or droplet mode of transsmission. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the Taiwan government implemented the use of masks and sanitizer, as well as other preventive measures like social distancing for prevention. This public response likely...

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Autores principales: Galvin, Cooper J., Li, Yu-Chuan (Jack), Malwade, Shwetambara, Syed-Abdul, Shabbir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.062
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spelling pubmed-73087512020-06-23 COVID-19 preventive measures showing an unintended decline in infectious diseases in Taiwan Galvin, Cooper J. Li, Yu-Chuan (Jack) Malwade, Shwetambara Syed-Abdul, Shabbir Int J Infect Dis Short Communication Most of the communicable diseases have contact, airborne and/or droplet mode of transsmission. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the Taiwan government implemented the use of masks and sanitizer, as well as other preventive measures like social distancing for prevention. This public response likely contributed significantly to the decline in the outbreak of other infectious diseases. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-09 2020-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7308751/ /pubmed/32585283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.062 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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