Comment on “Poorly known aspects of flattening the curve of COVID-19″

This short research note describes and summarizes several recent peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed studies on the concept of flattening-the-curve (FTC) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This note also highlights contradictory findings of these studies in terms of the effect of FTC on the to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mat Daud, Auni Aslah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33612869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120674
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Sumario:This short research note describes and summarizes several recent peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed studies on the concept of flattening-the-curve (FTC) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This note also highlights contradictory findings of these studies in terms of the effect of FTC on the total number of infections (the final epidemic size), and poses a research problem for future studies.

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