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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

An Examination on the Transmission of COVID-19 and the Effect of Response Strategies: A Comparative Analysis.

Yi-Tui Chen, Yung-Feng Yen, Shih-Heng Yu, Emily Chia-Yu Su

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Yi-Tui ChenDepartment of Health Care Management, College of Health Technology, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Yung-Feng YenDepartment of Health Care Management, College of Health Technology, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Shih-Heng YuDepartment of Business Management, National United University, Miaoli 36003, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3604-5062
Emily Chia-Yu SuGraduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-4801-5159

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C MOST 108-2410-H-227-008 to Yi-Tui Chen
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The major purpose of this paper was to examine the transmission of COVID-19 and the associated factors that affect the transmission. A qualitative analysis was conducted by comparing the COVID-19 transmission of six countries: China, Korea, Japan, Italy, the USA, and Brazil. This paper attempted to examine the mitigation effectiveness for the transmission of COVID-19 and the pandemic severity. Time to reach the peak of daily new confirmed cases and the maximum drop rate were used to measure the mitigation effectiveness, while the proportion of confirmed cases to population and the mortality rate were employed to evaluate the pandemic severity. Based on the mitigation effectiveness, the pandemic severity, and the mortality rate, the six sample countries were categorized into four types: high mitigation effectiveness vs. low pandemic severity, middle mitigation effectiveness vs. low pandemic severity, high mitigation effectiveness vs. high pandemic severity, and low mitigation effectiveness vs. high pandemic severity. The results found that Korea and China had relatively higher mitigation effectiveness and lower pandemic severity, while the USA and Brazil had the opposite. This paper suggests that viral testing together with contacts tracing, strict implementation of lockdown, and public cooperation play important roles in achieving a reduction in COVID-19 transmission.

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Global HealthBetacoronavirusCommunicable Disease ControlCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Time FactorsCOVID-19mitigation effectivenesspandemic severitytransmissionviral testing

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PMID32781669
PMCPMC7459733

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