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

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

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August 14 2020
By Park, Sang Woo ; Sun, Kaiyuan ; Viboud, Cécile ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Park, Sang Woo ; Sun, Kaiyuan ; Viboud, Cécile ; Grenfell, Bryan T. ; Dushoff, Jonathan
Description:

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.
Subjects:

Adult Aged Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Disease Transmission, Infectious Expedited Female Humans Male Middle Aged Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral Quarantine Social Distance
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 26(11):2697-2700
Pubmed ID:

32795385
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC7588540
Document Type:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

Republic of Korea
Location:

Asia
Volume:

26
Issue:

11
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:175fb48001ad853dda38ab7902e41c494800522e3a457f031625ed4ea1ff6c6c
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