{"id":6168,"date":"2020-04-21T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:14:11","slug":"impact-assessment-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-against-coronavirus-disease-2019-and-influenza-in-hong-kong-an-observational-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/impact-assessment-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-against-coronavirus-disease-2019-and-influenza-in-hong-kong-an-observational-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions against coronavirus disease 2019 and influenza in Hong Kong: an observational study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors analyzed data on influenza and coronavirus transmission in response to non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented in Hong Kong. COVID-19 transmission has slowed, with an R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (transmission rate per case) of ~1 sustained for 8 weeks, and influenza community transmission has been reduced by 44%, with a 33% reduction in pediatric hospitalization rates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study shows that NPIs such as border restrictions, quarantine and isolation, and social distancing are associated with reduced COVID-19 transmission, and are also likely to reduce influenza transmission.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cowling et al. (April 17, 2020). Impact assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions against coronavirus disease 2019 and influenza in Hong Kong: an observational study.\u00a0 Lancet Public Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30090-6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30090-6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors analyzed data on influenza and coronavirus transmission in response to non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented in Hong Kong. COVID-19 transmission has slowed, with an R1 (transmission rate per case) of ~1 sustained for 8 weeks, and influenza community transmission has been reduced by 44%, with a 33% reduction in pediatric hospitalization rates. This study shows&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/impact-assessment-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-against-coronavirus-disease-2019-and-influenza-in-hong-kong-an-observational-study\/\">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-6168","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\/6168","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=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}