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COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies
In Korea, where the successful control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic have been implemented by the follow-up survey management (containment) of COVID-19-infected persons, the number of infected persons has increased rapidly, and a re-epidemic trend is emerging. The Korean govern...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8666682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34607401 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2021071 |
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description | In Korea, where the successful control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic have been implemented by the follow-up survey management (containment) of COVID-19-infected persons, the number of infected persons has increased rapidly, and a re-epidemic trend is emerging. The Korean government is strengthening epidemic prevention activities, such as increasing the social distance in the metropolitan area to four levels and increasing the vaccination rate. The public has been complaining of dissatisfaction with the atrophy of socioeconomic activities and of distrust of epidemic prevention policies. Australia started with an incidence similar to that of Korea, but its social activities are more flexible than those of Korea, where the incidence is maintained at approximately 0.1 per 100,000 people. In comparing the differences between both countries in terms of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker Stringency Index, it was found that Australia effectively regulates the number of infected cases by high-intensity intermittent mitigation and the subsequent allowance of social activities. Korea has also recommended a high-intensity intermittent mitigation policy as in Australia until community herd immunity via vaccination is formed. |
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spelling | pubmed-86666822021-12-23 COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies Kim, Youngtaek Park, Yoon Hyung Epidemiol Health COVID 19: Perspective In Korea, where the successful control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic have been implemented by the follow-up survey management (containment) of COVID-19-infected persons, the number of infected persons has increased rapidly, and a re-epidemic trend is emerging. The Korean government is strengthening epidemic prevention activities, such as increasing the social distance in the metropolitan area to four levels and increasing the vaccination rate. The public has been complaining of dissatisfaction with the atrophy of socioeconomic activities and of distrust of epidemic prevention policies. Australia started with an incidence similar to that of Korea, but its social activities are more flexible than those of Korea, where the incidence is maintained at approximately 0.1 per 100,000 people. In comparing the differences between both countries in terms of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker Stringency Index, it was found that Australia effectively regulates the number of infected cases by high-intensity intermittent mitigation and the subsequent allowance of social activities. Korea has also recommended a high-intensity intermittent mitigation policy as in Australia until community herd immunity via vaccination is formed. Korean Society of Epidemiology 2021-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8666682/ /pubmed/34607401 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2021071 Text en ©2021, Korean Society of Epidemiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | COVID 19: Perspective Kim, Youngtaek Park, Yoon Hyung COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title | COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title_full | COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title_short | COVID-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
title_sort | covid-19 outbreak, herd immunity formation, and future public health strategies |
topic | COVID 19: Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8666682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34607401 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2021071 |
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