Isolation, quarantine, social distancing and community containment: pivotal role for old-style public health measures in the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak.
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...In a recent study, WilderSmith et al.(5) describe these different concepts in detail, ranging from quarantine of confirmed and possibly infected individuals as implemented in Germany to community containment in northern Italy with travel restriction outside of defined areas, and point out their respective efficacy in virus containment....
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...In a recent study, WilderSmith et al.5 describe these different concepts in detail, ranging from quarantine of confirmed and possibly infected individuals as implemented in Germany to community containment in northern Italy with travel restriction outside of defined areas, and point out their respective efficacy in virus containment....
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...Subsequently, Chinese government placed the whole country on lockdown to slow down the spread of infection and ease burden on health facilities (Wilder-Smith and Freedman, 2020)....
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...Preliminary insights from clusters in Vietnam and Germany unveil that even mildly symptomatic persons may contribute to transmission.(11) ,12 If this is indeed more frequent, then old-style public health measures will not be sufficient and we need to await vaccines to halt the epidemic....
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...Viral loads peaked at 6– 11 days after onset of illness for nasopharyngeal aspirates, and overall, peak viral loads were reached at 12–14 days of illness when patients were usually already in hospital care.(10) Low or absence of viral shedding in the first few days of illness meant that early isolation measures could be effective....
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