Selected article for: "behavioural change and home isolation"

Author: Ricardo Jorge Pais; Nuno Taveira
Title: Predicting the evolution and control of COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal.
  • Document date: 2020_3_31
  • ID: a8er8wbg_1
    Snippet: care due to limited ventilators and care units [2] . Therefore, the Portuguese government together with the National Health Directorate (DGS) has declared in 18 of March the state of emergency and adopted interventive populational measures (IM) in an attempt to drop the peak of infections even if at the cost of prolonging the infection time. These measures are based on the isolation of people at home-social distancing and adopting protective anti.....
    Document: care due to limited ventilators and care units [2] . Therefore, the Portuguese government together with the National Health Directorate (DGS) has declared in 18 of March the state of emergency and adopted interventive populational measures (IM) in an attempt to drop the peak of infections even if at the cost of prolonging the infection time. These measures are based on the isolation of people at home-social distancing and adopting protective antiseptic policies. Most forecasting models are based on the number of cases reported and do not take into account the effects of these government-imposed measures and behavioural change.

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