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Commentary on Ferguson, et al., “Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality and Healthcare Demand”
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A recent manuscript (Ferguson et al. in Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, London, 2020. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf) from Imperial College modelers examining ways to mitigate and control the spread of COVID-19 has attracted much attention. In this paper, we will discuss a coarse taxonomy of models and explore the context and significance of the Imperial College and other models in contributing to the analysis of COVID-19.
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- Authors
- Eubank, S., Eckstrand, I., Lewis, B., Venkatramanan, S., Marathe, M., & Barrett, C. L.
- Venue
- Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 52-52
- ISSN
- 0092-8240 (ISSN-L)
- 1522-9602
- OpenAlex
- W3015056889
- Cited by
- 881
- References
- 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (vor, 189 d)
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