As coronavirus disease spreads throughout the United States, policymakers are contemplating reinstatement and relaxation of shelter-in-place orders. By using a model capturing high-risk populations and transmission rates estimated from hospitalization data, we found that postponing relaxation will only delay future disease waves. Cocooning vulnerable populations can prevent overwhelming medical surges.
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Wang, X., Du, Z., Huang, G., Pasco, R. F., Fox, S. J., Galvani, A. P., … Meyers, L. A. (2020). Effects of cocooning on coronavirus disease rates after relaxing social distancing. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(12), 3066–3068. https://doi.org/10.3201/EID2612.201930
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