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SUBMITTER: Walker PGT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7292504 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walker Patrick G T PGT Whittaker Charles C Watson Oliver J OJ Baguelin Marc M Winskill Peter P Hamlet Arran A Djafaara Bimandra A BA Cucunubá Zulma Z Olivera Mesa Daniela D Green Will W Thompson Hayley H Nayagam Shevanthi S Ainslie Kylie E C KEC Bhatia Sangeeta S Bhatt Samir S Boonyasiri Adhiratha A Boyd Olivia O Brazeau Nicholas F NF Cattarino Lorenzo L Cuomo-Dannenburg Gina G Dighe Amy A Donnelly Christl A CA Dorigatti Ilaria I van Elsland Sabine L SL FitzJohn Rich R Fu Han H Gaythorpe Katy A M KAM Geidelberg Lily L Grassly Nicholas N Haw David D Hayes Sarah S Hinsley Wes W Imai Natsuko N Jorgensen David D Knock Edward E Laydon Daniel D Mishra Swapnil S Nedjati-Gilani Gemma G Okell Lucy C LC Unwin H Juliette HJ Verity Robert R Vollmer Michaela M Walters Caroline E CE Wang Haowei H Wang Yuanrong Y Xi Xiaoyue X Lalloo David G DG Ferguson Neil M NM Ghani Azra C AC
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200612 6502
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 ...[more]