{"id":8017,"date":"2020-07-07T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:49:13","slug":"mobility-restrictions-for-the-control-of-epidemics-when-do-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/mobility-restrictions-for-the-control-of-epidemics-when-do-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobility restrictions for the control of epidemics: When do they work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"5\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To determine when mobility restrictions reduce the size of an epidemic, Espinoza et al. use a model of disease transmission within and between economically heterogeneous locally connected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">communities, one with a low-risk, low-density population and the other with a high-risk, high-density population.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"5\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Unrestricted mobility between the two communities increases the number of secondary cases in the low-risk community but reduces the overall epidemic size.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The imposition of a cordon sanitaire around the high-risk community reduces the number of secondary infections in the low-risk community but increases the overall epidemic size.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Espinoza et al. (July 6, 2020). Mobility restrictions for the control of epidemics: When do they work? 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