{"id":6464,"date":"2020-04-30T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:00:15","slug":"evaluation-of-stratify-and-shield-as-a-policy-option-for-ending-the-covid-19-lockdown-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/evaluation-of-stratify-and-shield-as-a-policy-option-for-ending-the-covid-19-lockdown-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of \u201cstratify and shield\u201d as a policy option for ending the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McKeigue and Colhoun suggest that a \u2018stratify-and-shield\u2019 policy\u2013a strategy that would shield elderly and others at high risk of severe disease, while allowing immunity to build up in those at low risk until the entire population is protected\u2013 has potential to save lives, and restore economic activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In spite of key uncertainties about the theoretical impact, such as the infection fatality ratio, extent to which infection confers immunity, and performance of a classifier based on medical records, the authors propose that this policy should be considered as an alternative to adaptive social distancing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McKeigue &amp; Colhoun (Apr 30, 2020). Evaluation of \u201cstratify and shield\u201d as a policy option for <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ending the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. Pre-print downloaded Apr 30 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.25.20079913\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.25.20079913<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKeigue and Colhoun suggest that a \u2018stratify-and-shield\u2019 policy\u2013a strategy that would shield elderly and others at high risk of severe disease, while allowing immunity to build up in those at low risk until the entire population is protected\u2013 has potential to save lives, and restore economic activity.\u00a0 In spite of key uncertainties about the theoretical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/evaluation-of-stratify-and-shield-as-a-policy-option-for-ending-the-covid-19-lockdown-in-the-uk\/\">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-6464","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\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6465,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}