Can self-imposed prevention measures mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic?

Lei Zhang; Yusha Tao; Mingwang Shen; Christopher K Fairley; Yuming Guo

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003240

Can self-imposed prevention measures mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic?

PLoS Med. 2020 Jul 21;17(7):e1003240. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003240. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Lei Zhang^{1

2

3

4}, Yusha Tao^{1

2}, Mingwang Shen¹, Christopher K Fairley^{1

2

3}, Yuming Guo⁵

Affiliations

¹ China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
² Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Yuming Guo and colleagues discuss the research by Teslya et al that highlights the importance of personal preventative measures in avoiding a second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Government
Humans
Infection Control* / methods
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Quarantine
SARS-CoV-2

Grants and funding

The work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. LZ is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 81950410639); Outstanding Young Scholars Funding (Grant number: 3111500001); Xi’an Jiaotong University Basic Research and Profession Grant (Grant number: xtr022019003 and xzy032020032) and Xi’an Jiaotong University Young Talent Support Grant (Grant number: YX6J004). MS was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 11801435 (MS)), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (grant number: 2018M631134); the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant number: xjh012019055 and xzy032020026); Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province (Grant number: 2019JQ-187); and Xi’an Special Science and Technology Projects on Prevention and Treatment of Novel Coronavirus Penumonia Emergency (Grant number: 20200005YX005). YG is supported by Career Development Fellowships of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (Grant number: APP1163693).