Browsing by Subject "Social Isolation"
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Protocolo de coordinación para acciones de vigilancia epidemiológica durante la pandemia en Chile: estrategia nacional de testeo, trazabilidad y aislamiento
(2020-07)Este documento recoge las acciones en curso y propone modificaciones para fortalecer el sistema de vigilancia existente desarrollando una estrategia territorial de testeo, trazabilidad y aislamiento sociosanitario, ello ... -
Psychological impact of lockdown (confinement) on young children and how to mitigate its effects: Rapid review of the evidence
(2020-07)The aim of this article is to review the available evidence on the psychological impact of confinement in children, seeking to identify the main stressors and protective factors at play. -
Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Public Health Measures on COVID-19 Transmission
(2020-05-18)Although COVID-19 has spread almost all over the world, social isolation is still a controversial public health policy and governments of many countries still doubt its level of effectiveness. This situation can create ... -
Reported quality of life in countries with cases of COVID19: a systematic review
(2020-10-15)Introduction: Considering the relevance of the quality of life (QoL) and the consequences of the 2019 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to the social distancing, this systematic review aimed to summarize effects of ... -
The role of asymptomatic class, quarantine and isolation in the transmission of COVID-19
(2020-06-05)We formulate a deterministic epidemic model for the spread of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). We have included asymptomatic, quarantine and isolation compartments in the model, as studies have stressed upon the importance ... -
A simple criterion to design optimal nonpharmaceutical interventions for epidemic outbreaks
(2020-05-21)To mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, much emphasis exists on implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions to keep the reproduction number below one. But using that objective ignores that some of these interventions, like ... -
Social distancing and movement constraint as the most likely factors for COVID-19 outbreak control in Brazil
(2020-05-08)As thousands of new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, there is an increasing demand to understand the factors underlying the spread of this disease. Using country-level data, we modeled the early growth in the number ... -
Social Distancing Has Merely Stabilized COVID-19 in the US
(2020-04-30)Social distancing measures, with varying degrees of restriction, have been imposed around the world in order to stem the spread of COVID-19. In this work we analyze the effect of current social distancing measures in the ... -
Social interventions can lower COVID-19 deaths in middle-income countries
(2020-04-23)A novel pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first detected in late 2019 in Wuhan (China)1,2. COVID-19 has caused 77 national governments worldwide to impose a lockdown in part or all their countries, as of April ... -
Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world
(2020-06-04)Social distancing and isolation have been widely introduced to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. Adverse social, psychological and economic consequences of a complete or near-complete lockdown demand the development of more ... -
Stepping out of lockdown should start with school re-openings while maintaining distancing measures. Insights from mixing matrices and mathematical models
(2020-05-19)Australia is one of a few countries which has managed to control COVID-19 epidemic before a major epidemic took place. Currently with just under 7000 cases and 100 deaths, Australia is seeing less than 20 new cases per ... -
Sustaining Social Distancing Policies to Prevent a Dangerous Second Peak of COVID-19 Outbreak
(2020-04-22)Governments around the world have enacted strict social distancing policies in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next step is figuring out when to relax these restrictions and to what degree. Our results predict ... -
What is the evidence for social distancing during global pandemics?
(2020-03-20)Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government has now moved from its contain phase to a delay phase. Social distancing measures are being mandated, including self-isolation for anyone with specific ...