Aggressive containment, suppression, and mitigation of covid-19: lessons learnt from eight countries
Shishi Wu, Rachel Neill, Chuan De Foo, Alvin Qijia Chua, Anne-Sophie Jung, Victoria Haldane, Salma M. Abdalla, Wei‐jie Guan, Sudhvir Singh, Anders Nordström, Helena Legido‐Quigley
Abstract
<b>Shishi Wu and colleagues</b> examine three distinct response strategies for covid-19 in eight countries and argue that aggressive containment is the optimal approach to limiting loss of lives and livelihoods and achievable in the absence of vaccines and effective therapies
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LimitingCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Containment (computer programming)Livelihood2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)MedicineCoronavirus InfectionsVirologyComputer scienceOutbreakGeographyEngineeringPathologyMechanical engineeringInfectious disease (medical specialty)AgricultureArchaeologyDiseaseProgramming languageCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchCOVID-19 and Mental Health