{"id":5608,"date":"2020-04-02T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:55:06","slug":"a-phased-lift-of-control-a-practical-strategy-to-achieve-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-at-the-country-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/a-phased-lift-of-control-a-practical-strategy-to-achieve-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-at-the-country-level\/","title":{"rendered":"A phased lift of control: a practical strategy to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 at the country level."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors discuss a phased lift of stringent interventions, allowing for gradual herd immunity while keeping the number of cases within the limits of health care systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The paper acknowledges that this would be most feasible in smaller countries with robust healthcare systems, but that larger countries could implement this approach in specific regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vlas et al. (April 1, 2020).\u00a0 A phased lift of control: a practical strategy to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 at the country level.\u00a0 Pre-print downloaded Apr 1 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.29.20046011\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.29.20046011<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors discuss a phased lift of stringent interventions, allowing for gradual herd immunity while keeping the number of cases within the limits of health care systems.\u00a0 The paper acknowledges that this would be most feasible in smaller countries with robust healthcare systems, but that larger countries could implement this approach in specific regions. Vlas&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/a-phased-lift-of-control-a-practical-strategy-to-achieve-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-at-the-country-level\/\">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-5608","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\/5608","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=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}