{"id":5053,"date":"2020-03-16T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:02:24","slug":"impact-of-self-imposed-prevention-measures-and-short-term-government-intervention-on-mitigating-and-delaying-a-covid-19-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/impact-of-self-imposed-prevention-measures-and-short-term-government-intervention-on-mitigating-and-delaying-a-covid-19-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government intervention on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors emphasize the importance of handwashing, mask-wearing and social distancing as strategies to mitigate and delay the COVID-19 epidemic. Wide spread awareness on these self-imposed prevention measures and government-imposed social distancing can buy time for healthcare systems to prepare for an increasing COVID-19 burden.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teslya et al. (Mar 12, 2020). Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government intervention on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic. Pre-print downloaded Mar 16 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.12.20034827\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.12.20034827<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors emphasize the importance of handwashing, mask-wearing and social distancing as strategies to mitigate and delay the COVID-19 epidemic. Wide spread awareness on these self-imposed prevention measures and government-imposed social distancing can buy time for healthcare systems to prepare for an increasing COVID-19 burden.\u00a0 Teslya et al. (Mar 12, 2020). Impact of self-imposed prevention&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/impact-of-self-imposed-prevention-measures-and-short-term-government-intervention-on-mitigating-and-delaying-a-covid-19-epidemic\/\">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-5053","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\/5053","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=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}