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

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...

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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 11; pp. 2697 - 2700
Main Authors Park, Sang Woo, Sun, Kaiyuan, Viboud, Cécile, Grenfell, Bryan T, Dushoff, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.11.2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects
Adult
Aged
Cities
Contact tracing
Control
Coronavirus disease
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease control
Disease transmission
Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
Disease Transmission, Infectious - statistics & numerical data
Dispatch
Epidemics
Estimates
Expedited
Female
Humans
Infections
Influence
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Potential Role of Social Distancing in Mitigating Spread of Coronavirus Disease, South Korea
Prevention
Psychological Distance
Quarantine - methods
Quarantine - statistics & numerical data
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
respiratory diseases
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Social distancing
Social distancing (Public health)
South Korea
zoonoses
Republic of Korea
South Korea
China
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
South Korea
viruses
pneumonia
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Coronavirus disease
zoonoses
respiratory diseases
social distancing
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/EID2611.201099