{"id":8422,"date":"2020-07-22T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:30:29","slug":"impact-of-social-distancing-measures-on-coronavirus-disease-healthcare-demand-central-texas-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/impact-of-social-distancing-measures-on-coronavirus-disease-healthcare-demand-central-texas-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Social Distancing Measures on Coronavirus Disease Healthcare Demand, Central Texas, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wang et al. built a COVID-19 transmission model for Austin, TX incorporating age-stratified risks, contact patterns, and healthcare system factors and found that a\u00a02 week\u00a0delay in implementing extensive social distancing measures could accelerate the timing of peak healthcare needs by 4 weeks, causing shortages in beds and ICU units. School closures\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">did<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0not\u00a0 affect\u00a0the epidemic curve.<\/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\">Wang et al. (July 21, 2020). Impact of Social Distancing Measures on Coronavirus Disease Healthcare Demand, Central Texas, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.201702\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.201702<\/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>Wang et al. built a COVID-19 transmission model for Austin, TX incorporating age-stratified risks, contact patterns, and healthcare system factors and found that a\u00a02 week\u00a0delay in implementing extensive social distancing measures could accelerate the timing of peak healthcare needs by 4 weeks, causing shortages in beds and ICU units. School closures\u00a0did\u00a0not\u00a0 affect\u00a0the epidemic curve.\u00a0 Wang&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/impact-of-social-distancing-measures-on-coronavirus-disease-healthcare-demand-central-texas-usa\/\">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-8422","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\/8422","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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}