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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_63
    Snippet: There is an urgent need to project the relative impact of different levers for social distancing in light of their potential societal costs--including school closures, partial work and travel restrictions and cocooning of the high risk--so that restrictions can be strategically lifted without compromising public health. In particular, school closures are often deployed earlier than more extensive social distancing measures. Yet, they can be costl.....
    Document: There is an urgent need to project the relative impact of different levers for social distancing in light of their potential societal costs--including school closures, partial work and travel restrictions and cocooning of the high risk--so that restrictions can be strategically lifted without compromising public health. In particular, school closures are often deployed earlier than more extensive social distancing measures. Yet, they can be costly, particularly for low-income families who may rely on lunch programs and be unable to afford childcare [50, 51] , and our analysis suggests that they may only slightly reduce the pace of transmission and peak hospital surge. The role of children in community transmission of COVID-19 remains uncertain; thus, school closures are . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

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