{"id":7934,"date":"2020-07-02T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:07:16","slug":"low-impact-social-distancing-interventions-to-mitigate-local-epidemics-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/low-impact-social-distancing-interventions-to-mitigate-local-epidemics-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Impact Social Distancing Interventions to Mitigate Local Epidemics of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jackson<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0estimated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the impact of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interventions\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">chosen for their minimal disruption to economic and social\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">activity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on mitigating\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">epidemic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in King County, Washington. Interventions considered were (a) encouraging telecommuting; (b) reducing contacts\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">seniors and nursing home residents; (c) modest reductions to contacts outside of the home; (d) encouraging self-isolation of persons with COVID-19 symptoms; (e) rapid testing and household quarantining.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">N<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o individual intervention reduced COVID-19 hospitalizations by more than 12.7% (95%CI 12.0-13.3%). Combining interventions would reduce total hospitalizations by 48% (47-49%), with peak COVID-19 hospital occupancy of 70% of total beds. Targeted school closures\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">further reduce the peak occupancy.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jackson. (July 2, 2020). Low-Impact Social Distancing Interventions to Mitigate Local Epidemics of SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded July 2 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.30.20143735\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.30.20143735<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Jackson\u00a0estimated\u00a0the impact of\u00a0interventions\u00a0chosen for their minimal disruption to economic and social\u00a0activity\u00a0on mitigating\u00a0the\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0epidemic\u00a0in King County, Washington. Interventions considered were (a) encouraging telecommuting; (b) reducing contacts\u00a0with\u00a0seniors and nursing home residents; (c) modest reductions to contacts outside of the home; (d) encouraging self-isolation of persons with COVID-19 symptoms; (e) rapid testing and household quarantining.\u00a0\u00a0 No&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/low-impact-social-distancing-interventions-to-mitigate-local-epidemics-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","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=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}