Potential Role of Social Distancing in Mitigating Spread of Coronavirus Disease, South Korea

In South Korea, the coronavirus disease outbreak peaked at the end of February and subsided in mid-March. We analyzed the likely roles of social distancing in reducing transmission. Our analysis indicated that although transmission might persist in some regions, epidemics can be suppressed with less...

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Autores principales: Park, Sang Woo, Sun, Kaiyuan, Viboud, Cécile, Grenfell, Bryan T., Dushoff, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32795385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2611.201099
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Sumario:In South Korea, the coronavirus disease outbreak peaked at the end of February and subsided in mid-March. We analyzed the likely roles of social distancing in reducing transmission. Our analysis indicated that although transmission might persist in some regions, epidemics can be suppressed with less extreme measures than those taken by China.

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