Walker, Patrick GT; Whittaker, Charles; Watson, Oliver J; Baguelin, Marc; Winskill, Peter; Hamlet, Arran; Djafaara, Bimandra A; Cucunubá, Zulma; Olivera Mesa, Daniela; Green, Will; +39 more... Thompson, Hayley; Nayagam, Shevanthi; Ainslie, Kylie EC; Bhatia, Sangeeta; Bhatt, Samir; Boonyasiri, Adhiratha; Boyd, Olivia; Brazeau, Nicholas F; Cattarino, Lorenzo; Cuomo-Dannenburg, Gina; Dighe, Amy; Donnelly, Christl A; Dorigatti, Ilaria; van Elsland, Sabine L; FitzJohn, Rich; Fu, Han; Gaythorpe, Katy AM; Geidelberg, Lily; Grassly, Nicholas; Haw, David; Hayes, Sarah; Hinsley, Wes; Imai, Natsuko; Jorgensen, David; Knock, Edward; Laydon, Daniel; Mishra, Swapnil; Nedjati-Gilani, Gemma; Okell, Lucy C; Unwin, H Juliette; Verity, Robert; Vollmer, Michaela; Walters, Caroline E; Wang, Haowei; Wang, Yuanrong; Xi, Xiaoyue; Lalloo, David G; Ferguson, Neil M; Ghani, Azra C; (2020) The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries. Science, 369 (6502). pp. 413-422. ISSN 0036-8075 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc0035
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Abstract
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a severe threat to public health worldwide. We combine data on demography, contact patterns, disease severity, and health care capacity and quality to understand its impact and inform strategies for its control. Younger populations in lower-income countries may reduce overall risk, but limited health system capacity coupled with closer intergenerational contact largely negates this benefit. Mitigation strategies that slow but do not interrupt transmission will still lead to COVID-19 epidemics rapidly overwhelming health systems, with substantial excess deaths in lower-income countries resulting from the poorer health care available. Of countries that have undertaken suppression to date, lower-income countries have acted earlier. However, this will need to be maintained or triggered more frequently in these settings to keep below available health capacity, with associated detrimental consequences for the wider health, well-being, and economies of these countries.
Item Type | Article |
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Faculty and Department | Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Dynamics (2023-) |
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Covid-19 Research Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases |
PubMed ID | 32532802 |
Elements ID | 148402 |
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