Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government-imposed social distancing on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic: A modelling study
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:However, the authors also highlight the small number of randomized-controlled trials and the heterogeneity of the studies as notable limitations which may have led to these results. Given the high uncertainty around the efficacies of hand hygiene and mask-wearing on their own, the promotion of a combination of these measures might become preferable to recommending handwashing or mask-only measures. For self-imposed social distancing, contacts …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.12.20034827: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:However, the authors also highlight the small number of randomized-controlled trials and the heterogeneity of the studies as notable limitations which may have led to these results. Given the high uncertainty around the efficacies of hand hygiene and mask-wearing on their own, the promotion of a combination of these measures might become preferable to recommending handwashing or mask-only measures. For self-imposed social distancing, contacts might not be eliminated entirely (e.g. household contacts remain) and therefore realistic values of the efficacy of self-imposed social distancing can be close to but may never reach 100%. Thus, for a fair comparison between measures, realistic efficacy values of a specific measure should be taken into consideration. We contrasted self-imposed measures stimulated by disease awareness with mandated social distancing. Our analyses show that short-term government-imposed social distancing that is implemented early into the epidemic, can delay the epidemic peak but does not affect its magnitude nor the attack rate. For example, a complete lockdown of 3 months imposing a community-wide contact rate reduction that starts after tens to thousands diagnoses in the country can postpone the peak by about 7 months. Such an intervention is highly desirable, when a vaccine is being developed or when healthcare systems require more time to treat cases or increase capacity. If this intervention is implemented in a population which exercises a self-impos...
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