{"id":2571,"date":"2020-12-04T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:46:19","slug":"positive-impact-of-facility-based-isolation-of-mild-covid-19-cases-on-effectively-curbing-the-pandemic-a-mathematical-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/positive-impact-of-facility-based-isolation-of-mild-covid-19-cases-on-effectively-curbing-the-pandemic-a-mathematical-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Impact of Facility-Based Isolation of Mild COVID-19 Cases on Effectively Curbing the Pandemic: A Mathematical Modelling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A compartmental model simulating SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics projected that a facility-based isolation strategy with moderate capacity (5 beds per 10,000 total population) could avert 4.2 million new infections and 16,000 deaths in two months compared with home-based isolation, equivalent to relative reductions of 57% of new infections and 37% of deaths.\u00a0Doubling bed capacity resulted in a 76% reduction in new infections and 52% reduction in deaths when supported by expanded testing with a 20% daily diagnosis rate. Efficacy of this intervention was dependent upon local epidemic burden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chen et al. (Dec 3, 2020). Positive Impact of Facility-Based Isolation of Mild COVID-19 Cases on Effectively Curbing the Pandemic: A Mathematical Modelling Study. Journal of Travel Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jtm\/taaa226\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jtm\/taaa226<\/a>4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compartmental model simulating SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics projected that a facility-based isolation strategy with moderate capacity (5 beds per 10,000 total population) could avert 4.2 million new infections and 16,000 deaths in two months compared with home-based isolation, equivalent to relative reductions of 57% of new infections and 37% of deaths.\u00a0Doubling bed capacity resulted in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/positive-impact-of-facility-based-isolation-of-mild-covid-19-cases-on-effectively-curbing-the-pandemic-a-mathematical-modelling-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,47],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-modeling-prediction","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}