Covid-19 and community mitigation strategies in a pandemic
- 17 March 2020
- Vol. 368, m1066
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1066
Abstract
No specific drugs or vaccines are available, and health systems are overburdened everywhere. We have to rely on targeted, non-coercive, community interventions with sufficient transparency and public engagement and trust, and implement them urgently (box 1).9 10 11 Such measures may help delay the exponential spread of the outbreak until drugs become available. Transparency and trust are critical to preserving a calm and compliant response to mitigation advice among the public.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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