Selected article for: "capital city and social distancing"

Author: Xutong Wang; Remy F Pasco; Zhanwei Du; Michaela Petty; Spencer J Fox; Alison P Galvani; Michael Pignone; S. Claiborne Johnston; Lauren Ancel Meyers
Title: Impact of Social Distancing Measures on COVID-19 Healthcare Demand in Central Texas
  • Document date: 2020_4_22
  • ID: n0nch8he_10
    Snippet: As COVID-19 emerged into a global threat, we took a national pandemic influenza model that was built through a pandemic preparedness contract with the CDC and adapted it to model the spread and control of COVID-19 within and between 217 US cities. We used this model to project the potential impact of school closures coupled with social distancing, in terms of reducing cases, deaths, hospitalizations, ICU visits, and ventilator needs, on local, re.....
    Document: As COVID-19 emerged into a global threat, we took a national pandemic influenza model that was built through a pandemic preparedness contract with the CDC and adapted it to model the spread and control of COVID-19 within and between 217 US cities. We used this model to project the potential impact of school closures coupled with social distancing, in terms of reducing cases, deaths, hospitalizations, ICU visits, and ventilator needs, on local, regional and national scales. Here, we have focused our analysis on the city of Austin, which is the capital of Texas and the fastest growing city in the US [14, 15] . as a representation of major US metropolitan areas. The scenarios and inputs (e.g., epidemiological parameters) were determined in consultation with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the city of Regional Healthcare System Executive Council of the Austin-Travis County Emergency Operations

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