Buying time for an effective epidemic response: the impact of a public holiday for outbreak control on COVID-19 epidemic spread

Rapid responses in the early stage of a new epidemic are crucial in outbreak control. Public holidays for outbreak control could provide a critical time window for a rapid rollout of social distancing and other control measures at a large population scale. The objective of our study was to explore t...

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Simiao (VerfasserIn) , Bärnighausen, Till (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 20 September 2020
In: Engineering
Year: 2020, Jahrgang: 6, Heft: 10, Pages: 1108-1114
ISSN:2096-0026
DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2020.07.018
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2020.07.018
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809920302514
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Verfasserangaben:Simiao Chen, Qiushi Chen, Weizhong Yang, Lan Xue, Yuanli Liu, Juntao Yang, Chen Wang, Till Bärnighausen

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