{"id":5297,"date":"2020-03-18T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:45:20","slug":"if-containment-is-not-possible-how-do-we-minimize-mortality-for-covid-19-and-other-emerging-infectious-disease-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/18\/if-containment-is-not-possible-how-do-we-minimize-mortality-for-covid-19-and-other-emerging-infectious-disease-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"If Containment is not possible, how do we minimize mortality for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If containment and social distancing measures cannot be sustained, it may be necessary to move towards herd immunity and allow some SARS-CoV-2 infections to occur, and prioritize interventions that protect vulnerable populations from getting infected.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors discuss how school closures potentially reduces infections in low risk groups while shifting the burden to the higher risk groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handel et al. (March 17, 2020). If Containment is not possible, how do we minimize mortality for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks? Pre-print downloaded Mar 18 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.13.20034892\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.13.20034892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If containment and social distancing measures cannot be sustained, it may be necessary to move towards herd immunity and allow some SARS-CoV-2 infections to occur, and prioritize interventions that protect vulnerable populations from getting infected.\u00a0 The authors discuss how school closures potentially reduces infections in low risk groups while shifting the burden to the higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/18\/if-containment-is-not-possible-how-do-we-minimize-mortality-for-covid-19-and-other-emerging-infectious-disease-outbreaks\/\">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-5297","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\/5297","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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}