{"id":1619,"date":"2020-10-16T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:39:13","slug":"a-model-based-evaluation-of-the-efficacy-of-covid-19-social-distancing-testing-and-hospital-triage-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/a-model-based-evaluation-of-the-efficacy-of-covid-19-social-distancing-testing-and-hospital-triage-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Model-Based Evaluation of the Efficacy of COVID-19 Social Distancing, Testing and Hospital Triage Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A model examining the effects of policy choices regarding social distancing, testing, and hospital triaging found that the most successful practices for reducing COVID-19 mortality were social distancing, increasing test availability while reducing the delay between administration and results, and prioritizing the care of the least-severely infected patients. The model simulated how SARS-CoV-2 spreads in a community of 10,000 people and found that reducing public contacts (people encountered while shopping, banking, etc.) had a stronger effect on the number of deaths than an equal reduction in private contacts (friends, family). The efficacy of a given policy choice was found to depend on what other policies were implemented at the time.<\/p>\n<p><i>McCombs and Kadelka. (Oct 15, 2020). A Model-Based Evaluation of the Efficacy of COVID-19 Social Distancing, Testing and Hospital Triage Policies. PLOS Computational Biology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1008388\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1008388<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model examining the effects of policy choices regarding social distancing, testing, and hospital triaging found that the most successful practices for reducing COVID-19 mortality were social distancing, increasing test availability while reducing the delay between administration and results, and prioritizing the care of the least-severely infected patients. The model simulated how SARS-CoV-2 spreads in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/a-model-based-evaluation-of-the-efficacy-of-covid-19-social-distancing-testing-and-hospital-triage-policies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}