Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 9, 2020

The timing of one-shot interventions for epidemic control

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  • The apparent early success in China’s large-scale intervention to control the COVID-19 epidemic has led to interest in whether other countries can replicate it. In their paper, Lauro et al studied the impact of a single short-term intervention on an epidemic and offer insight into how best to time an intervention whose impact on society is too great maintain.

Lauro et al. (Mar 6, 2020). The timing of one-shot interventions for epidemic control. Pre-print downloaded Mar 9 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.02.20030007