Association Between the Relaxation of Public Health and Social Measures and Transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in South Korea

Sukhyun Ryu; Changhee Han; Dasom Kim; Tim K Tsang; Benjamin J Cowling; Sunmi Lee

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.25665

Association Between the Relaxation of Public Health and Social Measures and Transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in South Korea

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 1;5(8):e2225665. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.25665.

Authors

Sukhyun Ryu¹, Changhee Han¹, Dasom Kim¹, Tim K Tsang², Benjamin J Cowling², Sunmi Lee³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea.
² World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
³ Department of Applied Mathematics, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea.

Abstract

This cohort study investigates the association between relaxation of public health and social measures and daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection in South Korea.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Humans
Public Health*
Republic of Korea / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2

Supplementary concepts

SARS-CoV-2 variants