{"id":4980,"date":"2020-03-11T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:17:51","slug":"the-impact-of-transmission-control-measures-during-the-first-50-days-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/11\/the-impact-of-transmission-control-measures-during-the-first-50-days-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tian et al report the impact of travel restriction and national emergency response in delaying the growth and limiting the size of COVID-19 epidemic in China.\u00a0 The Wuhan shutdown slowed the dispersal of infection to other cities by an estimated 2.9 days and averted hundreds of thousands of cases across China. The most effective interventions were; suspending intra-city public transport, closing entertainment venues and banning public gatherings. This could provide lesson to countries in early stages of COVID-19 outbreak.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tian et al. (Mar 10, 2020). The impact of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China.\u00a0 Pre-print downloaded Mar 11 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.30.20019844\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.30.20019844<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tian et al report the impact of travel restriction and national emergency response in delaying the growth and limiting the size of COVID-19 epidemic in China.\u00a0 The Wuhan shutdown slowed the dispersal of infection to other cities by an estimated 2.9 days and averted hundreds of thousands of cases across China. The most effective interventions&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/11\/the-impact-of-transmission-control-measures-during-the-first-50-days-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-china\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}