Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: a rapid review

Nußbaumer-Streit, Barbara; Mayr, Verena; Dobrescu, Andreea; Chapman, Andrea; Persad, Emma; Klerings, Irma; Wagner, Gernot; Siebert, Uwe; Christof, Claudia; Zachariah, Casey; Gartlehner, Gerald

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd013574

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“…Furthermore, the current measures to control COVID-19 include quarantine of suspected cases, isolation of infected patients, contact tracing, and among other strategies [16,17]. These might not have good acceptability in some communities [18,19].…”

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What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control?

2020

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What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control?

2020

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“…Studies and research reviews that evaluate the relative effectivenss of COVID-19 interventions are limited: when they are available they either consider only one type of intervention or have been undertaken in a different context. 8,29,[36][37][38] Therefore our study is likely to offer several important insights, especially to countries whose context matches the one we considered in this study. Our first insight is on what a lockdown, currently in place in several countries can and can not achieve.…”

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COVID-19 Control Strategies and Intervention Effects in Resource Limited Settings: A Modeling Study

Pandey

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Khanal

et al. 2020

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BackgroundMany countries with weaker health systems are struggling to put together a coherent strategy against the COVID-19 epidemic. We explored COVID-19 control strategies that could offer the greatest benefit in resource limited settings. MethodsUsing an age-structured SEIR model, we explored the effects of COVID-19 control interventions--a lockdown, physical distancing measures, and active case finding (testing and isolation, contact tracing and quarantine)--implemented individually and in combination to control a hypothetical COVID-19 epidemic in Kathmandu (population 2.6 million), Nepal. ResultsA month-long lockdown that is currently in place in Nepal will delay peak demand for hospital beds by 36 days, as compared to a base scenario of no interventions (peak demand at 108 days (Inter-Quartile Range IQR 97-119); a 2 month long lockdown will delay it by 74 days, without any difference in annual mortality, or healthcare demand volume. Year-long physical distancing measures will reduce peak demand to 36% (IQR 23%-46%) and annual morality to 67% (IQR 48%-77%) of base scenario. Following a month long lockdown with ongoing physical distancing measures and an active case finding intervention that detects 5% of the daily infection burden could reduce projected morality and peak demand by more than 99%. InterpretationLimited resources settings are best served by a combination of early and aggressive case finding with ongoing physical distancing measures to control the COVID-19 epidemic. A lockdown may be helpful until combination interventions can be put in place but is unlikely to reduce annual mortality or healthcare demand.

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“…The general recommendations from state officials, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and public health officials involve self-isolation for disease containment to prevent viral spread. 24 Unfortunately, the very nature of donation and transplant violates the principles of disease containment, and evaluation of COVIDpositive donors places our team members and donation coordinators in direct contact with SARS-CoV-2. In a study by Wang et al, 25 hospital-associated transmission was the presumed mechanism for infection in 29% of health care professionals, although it is worth mentioning that many of these providers were not wearing appropri- observations.…”

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Utilization of deceased donors during a pandemic: argument against using SARS-CoV-2–positive donors

Shah

Lynch

El‐Haddad

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American Journal of Transplantation

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Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: a rapid review

Cited by 592 publications

References 51 publications

What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control?

What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control?

COVID-19 Control Strategies and Intervention Effects in Resource Limited Settings: A Modeling Study

Utilization of deceased donors during a pandemic: argument against using SARS-CoV-2–positive donors

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