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
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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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spelling pubmed-75885402020-11-01 Potential Role of Social Distancing in Mitigating Spread of Coronavirus Disease, South Korea Park, Sang Woo Sun, Kaiyuan Viboud, Cécile Grenfell, Bryan T. Dushoff, Jonathan Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7588540/ /pubmed/32795385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2611.201099 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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